IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Twobutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005KS129001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005KS129001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0684
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18378
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 37.3314171
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9916916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 180 ft W and 180 ft N of SE corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS129—Morton
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS129—Morton County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: spg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Twobutte
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Calciustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent subrounded
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—15

    15—30

    15—-

    15—-
    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

    2

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    1110

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03934; observed in pit, small
    Bk—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume subrounded unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03935; observed in pit, small
    C—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03936; observed in pit, small
    R—53 centimeters (20.9 inches); fragments.