IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nibson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS123700
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS123700
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0848
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18471
  • 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: 39.4438896
  • Std. Longitude: -98.2091980
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 South
  • Range: 8 West
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: From the intersection of Main St. and Western St. in Beloit, go 2.5 miles west to road 270, then 0.5 miles south to road I, then 2 miles west to road 250, then 0.5 miles south, 200 feet east in pasture.
  • Map Unit: 2718—Nibson silt loam, 3 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS123—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS123—Mitchell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-D2—Solomon Rapids, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Anderson, John Warner, Bob Murphy, Tyler Labenz, Jeff Hellerich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 700
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nibson
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Entic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 44cm
  • 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: 5/22/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    —

    —

    44 - 73

    73 -

    —

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

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—21

    44—

    44—73

    73—

    —21—

    —-

    —29—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    270

    699

    —

    184

    12.2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KS0693

    Beloit

    WETS
    A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03632; observed in pit, small
    A2—4 to 21 centimeters (1.6 to 8.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 12.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03633; observed in pit, small
    AC—21 to 44 centimeters (8.3 to 17.3 inches);, 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; very channery loam; 20 percent clay; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 25.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03634; observed in pit, small
    Cr—44 to 73 centimeters (17.3 to 28.7 inches);, 70 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) broken face and 20 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face and 10 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1) broken face, moist; weathered bedrock; 1.0 fine roots; 45 percent by volume 20-76-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03635; observed in pit, small
    R—73 centimeters (28.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small