IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zeandale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002KS161002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002KS161002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0157
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14808
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.1880875
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4513779
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet south and 1900 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: 1 mile north on Tabor Valley Road and 1.5 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, calcareous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zeandale
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, 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: 0 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: occasional 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
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00801; observed in trench
    C1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00802; observed in trench
    C2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00803; observed in trench
    C3—46 to 68 centimeters (18.1 to 26.8 inches); 95 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 5 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00804; observed in trench
    C4—68 to 108 centimeters (26.8 to 42.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00805; observed in trench
    C5—108 to 138 centimeters (42.5 to 54.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00806; observed in trench
    C6—138 to 167 centimeters (54.3 to 65.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00807; observed in trench
    C7—167 to 221 centimeters (65.7 to 87.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00808; observed in trench
    C8—221 to 243 centimeters (87.0 to 95.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00809; observed in trench
    C9—243 to 263 centimeters (95.7 to 103.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 03N00810; observed in trench