IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lancaster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002KS029002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002KS029002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0361
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15295
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 39.3623085
  • Std. Longitude: -97.6008377
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of NW1/4 of NE1/4
  • Location Description: Located 3 and 1/2 miles east of the intersection of U.S. highways 24 and 81 on the south side of the road on south west end of fallow cropland field.
  • Map Unit: Lo—LONGFORD SILTY CLAY LOAM, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES, ERODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS029—Cloud
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS029—Cloud County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-C5—Lamar, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Kichler, J.C. Remley, W. Wehmueller, C. Watts, P. Finnell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lancaster
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplustalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2002
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 84 cm of Depth to discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy pedisediment derived from mixed over loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Dakota Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—48

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    —28—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    5

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    473

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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 4.0 medium roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-30-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N01886; observed in trench
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, moist; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 4.0 medium roots throughout; 9 percent by volume nonflat rounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-30-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N01887; observed in trench
    Bt1—20 to 29 centimeters (7.9 to 11.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 4.0 medium roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent by volume nonflat rounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-30-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01888; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 237977; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 237977
    Bt2—29 to 48 centimeters (11.4 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; gravelly clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 4.0 medium roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 25-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 30-60-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N01889; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 237978; continuous - phpvsfiid 237978
    C1—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); light gray (7.5YR 7/1) exterior, gray (7.5YR 6/1) exterior, moist; very parachannery clay loam; 34 percent clay; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) coarse prominent irregular mottles; massive; firm; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 fine roots around fragments; fine prominent irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in cracks and medium prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 75-80-100 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume flat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 75-106-125 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N01890; observed in trench
    C2—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior, moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; 30 percent clay; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse faint irregular mottles; massive; firm; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots around fragments; 3 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, carbonate, finely disseminated with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 60 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N01891; observed in trench
    2C3—84 to 129 centimeters (33.1 to 50.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) exterior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) exterior, moist; extremely paracobbly silt loam; 22 percent clay; massive; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots around fragments; coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; 85 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 75-128-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N01892; observed in trench
    2C4—129 to 198 centimeters (50.8 to 78.0 inches); light gray (7.5YR 7/1) exterior, gray (7.5YR 6/1) exterior, moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; massive; very firm; very slow permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 02N01893; observed in trench