IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005KS089001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005KS089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0695
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17644
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 39.7781677
  • Std. Longitude: -98.2188644
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3 South
  • Range: 8 West
  • Section: 21
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS089—Jewell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS089—Jewell County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Anderson, John Warner, Bobby Tricks, Tyler Labenz, Jeff Hellerich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Balta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Haplustalfs
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Loess, Quaternary formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—18

    18—161

    91—161

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    —-

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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

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    0

    690

    —

    178

    10.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KS4857

    Lovewell Lake

    WETS
    Ap—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 75 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 20.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04010; observed in trench
    BA—7 to 18 centimeters (2.8 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 8.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04011; observed in trench
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 5.0 fine roots; 20 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04012; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 326258; continuous - phpvsfiid 326258
    Bt2—38 to 63 centimeters (15.0 to 24.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 37 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots; 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04013; observed in trench
    Bt3—63 to 91 centimeters (24.8 to 35.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 fine roots; 25 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04014; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 326256; continuous - phpvsfiid 326256
    Btk1—91 to 125 centimeters (35.8 to 49.2 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04015; observed in trench
    Btk2—125 to 161 centimeters (49.2 to 63.4 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 77 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04016; observed in trench
    Ck—161 to 180 centimeters (63.4 to 70.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 77 percent silt; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04017; observed in trench
    2Ab—180 to 206 centimeters (70.9 to 81.1 inches);, 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 25 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 5 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 72 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N04018; observed in trench