IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): heizer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS089700
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS089700
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0845
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18468
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.7850838
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1052246
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3
  • Range: 7
  • Section: 16
  • Location Description: From the eastern edge of Mankato, approximately 5.3 miles east on US highway 36, then 100 ft north of highway, in a road cut
  • Map Unit: 2547—Brownell-Heizer gravelly loams, 3 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS089—Jewell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS089—Jewell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-G1—Montrose, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Anderson, Jeff Hellerich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 700
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - heizer
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 36cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R073XY012KS Limy Upland (Draft) Under Peer Review (PE 20-26)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    36 - 200

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—25

    36—

    —25—

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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

    11

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    270

    6896

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    178

    10.8

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    KS4857

    Lovewell Lake

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 15 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 10.0 fine roots around fragments; 3 percent by volume 2-5-10 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03615; very dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    AC—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly silt loam; 15 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 8.0 fine roots around fragments; 15 percent by volume 20-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03616; very dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; very channery silt loam; 20 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 8.0 fine roots around fragments; 15 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-5-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat angular indurated 20-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03617; very dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    R1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); channers; indurated; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    R2—51 to 200 centimeters (20.1 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; indurated; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry