IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Catoosa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007KS205001
  • User Pedon ID: S2007KS205001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007KS205001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Wagstaff Catoosa project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0398
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19070
  • 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: 37.6883888
  • Std. Longitude: -95.6044464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27
  • Range: 16
  • Section: 24
  • Location Description: waypoint 18. South-central part of good native meadow on a faint interfluve off the east side of a dominant N/S limestone ridge.
  • Map Unit: 8643—Catoosa silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS205—Wilson
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS205—Wilson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37095-F5—Vilas, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Gastineau
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Catoosa
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone over clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: indurated moderate weathered limestone, unspecified at 88cm with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Stanton Limestone formation of the Lansing group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/7/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANGE

    PAVI2

    SCSC

    SONU2

    Andropogon gerardii

    Panicum virgatum

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    Sorghastrum nutans

    big bluestem

    switchgrass

    little bluestem

    Indiangrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    88 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    lithic contact

    0—38

    38—88

    38—88

    88—

    —38—

    —50—

    —50—

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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

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    317

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    90

    107

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    201

    14

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    15

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) crushed silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N02047; observed in push tube
    BA—16 to 38 centimeters (6.3 to 15.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) crushed silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 4.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N02048; observed in push tube
    Bt1—38 to 55 centimeters (15.0 to 21.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 4.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 40 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent very fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 2 percent very fine distinct spherical very weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N02049; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 369589; continuous - phpvsfiid 369589
    2Bt2—55 to 88 centimeters (21.7 to 34.6 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face silty clay; 43 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 4.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 60 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct spherical very weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries throughout and 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 5-10-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N02050; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 369590; continuous - phpvsfiid 369590
    2R—88 to 92 centimeters (34.6 to 36.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.