IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Belvue
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002KS161001
  • User Pedon ID: S2002KS161001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0156
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14807
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.1835251
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4484177
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet south and 2200 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: 1 mile north on Tabor Valley Road from the town of Zeandale and 1 and a 1/2 miles west on Kaw Road. Site is approximately 1 mile north in the crop field.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS161—Riley
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS161—Riley County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-B4—Saint George, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Evans, Bill Wehmueller, Chad Remley, and Robert Plinsky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Belvue
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/2002
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 84 cm of Depth to CaCO3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Geology: Holliday Terrace Complex formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 27
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    0—13

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00790; observed in trench
    C1—13 to 27 centimeters (5.1 to 10.6 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00791; observed in trench
    C2—27 to 43 centimeters (10.6 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00792; observed in trench
    C3—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00793; observed in trench
    Ab—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00794; observed in trench
    2C4—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00795; observed in trench
    2C5—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00796; observed in trench
    2C6—142 to 174 centimeters (55.9 to 68.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00797; observed in trench
    2C7—174 to 203 centimeters (68.5 to 79.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) stratified stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00798; observed in trench
    2C8—203 to 216 centimeters (79.9 to 85.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00799; observed in trench
    3C9—216 to 254 centimeters (85.0 to 100.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) stratified stratified sand to fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 03N00800; observed in trench