IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dalhart
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS171102
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS171102
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0851
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18415
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 38.3559990
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8011703
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19s
  • Range: 32w
  • Section: 36
  • Location Description: 500 meters west and 437 meters north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 5228—Dalhart-Richfield complex, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS171—Scott
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS171—Scott County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-C7—Pawnee Mound, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Warner, Steve Graber, & Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 102
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dalhart
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 9 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/29/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—48

    9—64

    64—200

    64—

    —48—

    —55—

    —136—

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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

    —

    —

    917.5

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    300

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03648; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—9 to 28 centimeters (3.5 to 11.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03649; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350019; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350019
    Bt2—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03650; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350020; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350020
    Bt3—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches);, 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03651; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350021; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350021
    2Bk1—64 to 96 centimeters (25.2 to 37.8 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent medium irregular carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03652; observed in pit, small
    2Bk2—96 to 140 centimeters (37.8 to 55.1 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 1.0 medium low-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent coarse irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions in matrix and 10 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03653; observed in pit, small
    3Btk1—140 to 160 centimeters (55.1 to 63.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions in matrix and 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03654; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350022; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350022
    3Btk2—160 to 200 centimeters (63.0 to 78.7 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 8 percent coarse irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules in matrix and 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium irregular carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N03655; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350023; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 350023