IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Labette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009KS015001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009KS015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0935
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23953
  • 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: 37.8024101
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8833618
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T. 26 S.
  • Range: R. 5 E.
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2529 feet north and 872 feet west of the SE
  • Location Description: About 1 mile south and 1 mile west of El Dorado, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 4746—Labette-Sogn silty clay loams, 0 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS015—Butler
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS015—Butler County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37096-G8—El Dorado SW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bill Wehmueller, Chad Remley and John Warner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Labette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated at 102cm with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/2009 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    102 - 122

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—63

    41—102

    102—

    —63—

    —61—

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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

    2

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    399

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 20.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 80 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03459; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 462938; continuous - phpvsfiid 462938
    AB—12 to 41 centimeters (4.7 to 16.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 60 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03460; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 462939; continuous - phpvsfiid 462939
    Bt1—41 to 63 centimeters (16.1 to 24.8 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03461; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 462940; patchy - phpvsfiid 462941; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 462940; patchy - phpvsfiid 462941
    Bt2—63 to 102 centimeters (24.8 to 40.2 inches);, 60 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face and 40 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; silty clay; 54 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout; 2 percent by volume flat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 100-?-500 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03462; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 462942; patchy - phpvsfiid 462943; patchy - phpvsfiid 462944; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 462942; patchy - phpvsfiid 462943; patchy - phpvsfiid 462944
    R—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); fragments.