IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003KS055002
  • User Pedon ID: S2003KS055002
  • User Site Association ID: SPG Uly/Ulysses 3 to 6 percent studymlra72-Ulysses labOLD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0878
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16247
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.1884861
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5375944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 29W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet west, and 800 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Finney County, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 1960—Buffalo Park silt loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS055—Finney
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS055—Finney County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-B5—Scott City 4 NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Graber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Calciustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent conglomerate, calcareous at 185cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—31

    0—185

    31—91

    48—125

    64—125

    125—153

    185—

    —31—

    —185—

    —60—

    —77—

    —61—

    —28—

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    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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    —

    836.7

    —

    120

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04485; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04486; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—31 to 48 centimeters (12.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04487; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume flat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04488; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; 5 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04489; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—91 to 125 centimeters (35.8 to 49.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; 5 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04490; observed in pit, small
    2BC—125 to 153 centimeters (49.2 to 60.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; channery loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 8 percent by volume flat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04491; observed in pit, small
    2C—153 to 185 centimeters (60.2 to 72.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; channery loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 9 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume flat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04492; observed in pit, small
    R—185 centimeters (72.8 inches); bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence.; observed in pit, small