IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kuma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002KS199002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002KS199002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0107
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15402
  • 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: 38.7700768
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6739349
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet south and 1300 feet west of Northeast corner
  • Location Description: Bill Mai-Broke in 1993, has been in Corn-Fallow-Wheat No-Till system since 1994.
  • Map Unit: Ku—KUMA SILT LOAM, 0 TO 1 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS199—Wallace
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS199—Wallace County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38101-G6—South Flats, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Tricks
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 18 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Holocene loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: divide
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Holocene Loess formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 61
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 29
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—84

    18—62

    41—200

    —84—

    —44—

    —159—
    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

    0.1

    300

    150

    1100

    —

    50

    456

    —

    155

    21.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; 1.25 gr/cm3 of Bulk Density; 5.16 Percent of Percent Moisture; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00509
    Bt1—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 20 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; 1.23 gr/cm3 of Bulk Density; 9.76 Percent of Percent Moisture; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00510. continuous - phpvsfiid 244492; continuous - phpvsfiid 244492
    Bt2—31 to 41 centimeters (12.2 to 16.1 inches); variegated 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 20 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, 80 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 20 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00511. continuous - phpvsfiid 244491; continuous - phpvsfiid 244491
    2Btkb—41 to 62 centimeters (16.1 to 24.4 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate coats on bottom faces of peds and 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; 2 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 5 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00512. patchy - phpvsfiid 244489; continuous - phpvsfiid 244490; patchy - phpvsfiid 244489; continuous - phpvsfiid 244490
    2Bkb1—62 to 84 centimeters (24.4 to 33.1 inches); variegated 90 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior and 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry, and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent coarse prominent cylindrical weakly coherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, insect casts and 10 percent fine prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; 2 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 2 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00513. patchy - phpvsfiid 244487; continuous - phpvsfiid 244488; patchy - phpvsfiid 244487; continuous - phpvsfiid 244488
    2Bkb2—84 to 120 centimeters (33.1 to 47.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent coarse prominent cylindrical weakly coherent cemented insect casts and 10 percent fine prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00514. continuous - phpvsfiid 244486; continuous - phpvsfiid 244486
    2BCk—120 to 200 centimeters (47.2 to 78.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent fine prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 03N00515