IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aliceville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009KS121001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009KS121001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0904
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23950
  • 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: 38.5921707
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8478775
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T. 17 S.
  • Range: R. 23 E.
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: about 750 feet west and 160 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles east and 1.5 miles north of Paola, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 8645—Catoosa silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS121—Miami
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS121—Miami County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38094-E7—Paola East, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Abney, Sheila Staton-Clifton, G. Campbell, Wm. Wehmueller, JC Remley, P. Hartley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • 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 - Aliceville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 45 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess over Residuum weathered from Limestone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 140cm
  • Geology: Iola Limestone Formation formation of the Kansas City Group group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/2009 (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

    140 - 200

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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—45

    45—140

    45—140

    140—200

    —45—

    —95—

    —95—

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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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    —

    290

    —

    135

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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03247; observed in pit, small
    A—16 to 31 centimeters (6.3 to 12.2 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03248; observed in pit, small
    BA—31 to 45 centimeters (12.2 to 17.7 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face and 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.2 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 fine roots throughout; 50 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03249; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459061; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459061
    Bt1—45 to 68 centimeters (17.7 to 26.8 inches); 55 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face and 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.2 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03250; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459062; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459062
    Bt2—68 to 102 centimeters (26.8 to 40.2 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face clay; 50 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03251; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459063; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459063
    Btss—102 to 140 centimeters (40.2 to 55.1 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face clay; 55 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout and 25 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 09N03252; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459064; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459064
    R—140 to 200 centimeters (55.1 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small