IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McCook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS169001
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS169001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0850
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18473
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.8872643
  • Std. Longitude: -97.6007462
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet west and 700 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: On Camp Webster, about 1 mile north and .5 mile west of the intersection of Ohio St. and I-70, in Saline County.
  • Map Unit: 2347—McCook silt loam, rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS169—Saline
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS169—Saline County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38097-H5—New Cambria, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Murphy, J. Warner, W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McCook
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/9/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    2—26

    26—80

    —24—

    —54—
    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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    370

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    180

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A1—2 to 13 centimeters (0.8 to 5.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03641; observed in pit, small
    A2—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03642; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—26 to 36 centimeters (10.2 to 14.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03643; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03644; observed in pit, small
    Bk—64 to 80 centimeters (25.2 to 31.5 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2 percent fine threadlike weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses and 1 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03645; observed in pit, small
    C1—80 to 128 centimeters (31.5 to 50.4 inches);, 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; stratified stratified silt loam; 15 percent clay; massive; friable; 2 percent fine threadlike weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03646; observed in pit, small
    C2—128 to 170 centimeters (50.4 to 66.9 inches);, 34 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior and 33 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 33 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; stratified stratified silt loam; 17 percent clay; massive; friable; 2 percent fine threadlike weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N03647; observed in pit, small