IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beeler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008KS055002
  • User Pedon ID: S2008KS055002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0346
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19808
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.0056534
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8412704
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23s
  • Range: 32w
  • Section: 33
  • Location Description: 206 meters north and 532 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 #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beeler
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 26 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/10/2008
  • 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: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/10/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 64
  • 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

    gypsum accumulations

    secondary carbonates

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—41

    14—142

    26—200

    26—61

    111—

    —41—

    —128—

    —174—

    —35—

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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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    863.8

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02225; observed in push tube
    Apy—14 to 26 centimeters (5.5 to 10.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02226; observed in push tube
    Btky1—26 to 41 centimeters (10.2 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 1 percent fine threadlike gypsum crystal clusters in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02227; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398925; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 398925
    Btky2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses and 3 percent fine threadlike gypsum crystal clusters in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02228; observed in push tube. This argillic horizon barely meets argillic criteria.; Carbonate masses are on gypsum nests.; patchy - phpvsfiid 398924; patchy - phpvsfiid 398924
    Bky1—61 to 111 centimeters (24.0 to 43.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters in matrix and 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent fine threadlike gypsum crystal clusters in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02229; observed in push tube
    2Bky2—111 to 142 centimeters (43.7 to 55.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters in matrix and 10 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02230; observed in push tube
    2Bk1—142 to 182 centimeters (55.9 to 71.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 15 percent coarse irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02231; observed in push tube
    2Bk2—182 to 200 centimeters (71.7 to 78.7 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 6 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules in matrix and 7 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 08N02232; observed in push tube