IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Timken
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005KS123701
  • User Pedon ID: S2005KS123701
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0697
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17647
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.2818604
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3972778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 South
  • Range: 10 West
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS123—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS123—Mitchell County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Anderson, John Warner, Bob Murphy, Tyler Labenz, Bobby Tricks, Jeff Hellerich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, mesic, shallow Typic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 701
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Timken
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, smectitic, mesic, shallow Typic Ustorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: noncoherent moderate weathered shale, acid at 44cm
  • Geology: Blue Shale member of the Carlile Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/6/2005 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, densic

    noncoherent

    44 - 145

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    gypsum accumulations

    0—29

    29—145

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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

    1

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    45

    699

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    184

    12.2

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    ks0693

    Beloit

    WETS
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face, gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face, dry; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04025; observed in trench
    Bw—8 to 29 centimeters (3.1 to 11.4 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face silty clay; 5 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 50 percent clay; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine prominent and 2 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04026; observed in trench
    C—29 to 44 centimeters (11.4 to 17.3 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face clay; 5 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 60 percent clay; 6 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine prominent and 8 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium platy structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04027; observed in trench
    Cd1—44 to 79 centimeters (17.3 to 31.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face clay; 5 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 60 percent clay; 8 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine prominent and 10 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; structureless massive; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04028; observed in trench
    Cd2—79 to 145 centimeters (31.1 to 57.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face clay; 5 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 60 percent clay; 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium prominent and 20 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) medium faint mottles; structureless massive; 20 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N04029; observed in trench