IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beeler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008KS055001
  • User Pedon ID: S2008KS055001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0345
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19807
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.0912819
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8617935
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22s
  • Range: 32w
  • Section: 32
  • Location Description: 41 meters north and 323 meters east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 6336—Drummond silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS055—Finney
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS055—Finney County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-A7—White Woman Bottoms, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran, John Warner, Bill Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beeler
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/2008
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: depression
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding for very brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 40
  • 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

    salt accumulations

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    23—139

    23—93

    23—200

    93—

    139—

    —23—

    —116—

    —70—

    —177—

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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

    0

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    —

    868.4

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    0

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent sand; 20 percent clay; cloddy structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02216; observed in push tube
    Ap2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02217; observed in push tube
    Btkn1—23 to 34 centimeters (9.1 to 13.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; salt, finely disseminated in matrix and 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02218; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398918; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398918
    Btkn2—34 to 62 centimeters (13.4 to 24.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; salt, finely disseminated in matrix and 3 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02219; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 398919; patchy - phpvsfiid 398919
    Btkn3—62 to 93 centimeters (24.4 to 36.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2 percent distinct carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine irregular manganese masses in matrix and 3 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; salt, finely disseminated in matrix and 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02220; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398921; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398920; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398921; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398920
    2Btk1—93 to 112 centimeters (36.6 to 44.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent coarse irregular light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02221; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 398923; patchy - phpvsfiid 398923
    2Btk2—112 to 139 centimeters (44.1 to 54.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium irregular manganese masses in matrix and 3 percent medium irregular iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 8 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02222; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398922; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398922
    3Bk1—139 to 174 centimeters (54.7 to 68.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 2 percent medium irregular manganese masses in matrix and 3 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 15 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02223; observed in push tube
    3Bk2—174 to 200 centimeters (68.5 to 78.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent fine irregular manganese masses in matrix and 8 percent medium irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent coarse irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium irregular carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 08N02224; observed in push tube