IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bucyrus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009KS139001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009KS139001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0905
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23951
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 38.6971512
  • Std. Longitude: -95.6084900
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T. 15 S.
  • Range: R. 17 E.
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 6 miles west and 5 miles north of Pomona, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 8735—Eram silty clay loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS139—Osage
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS139—Osage County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38095-F5—Vassar, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Abney, Sheila Staton-Clifton, G. Campbell, Wm. Wehmueller, JC Remley, P. Hartley, M. Ransom
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucyrus
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2009
  • 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: colluvium over residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 186cm
  • Geology: Lecompton Limestone formation of the Shawnee Group group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/2009 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    0—46

    46—186

    46—186

    60—159

    81—186

    186—200

    —46—

    —140—

    —140—

    —99—

    —105—

    —14—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    308

    —

    90

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03253; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—11 to 28 centimeters (4.3 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03254; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); 80 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-10 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03255; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—46 to 60 centimeters (18.1 to 23.6 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-10 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03256; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459041; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459041
    Bt2—60 to 81 centimeters (23.6 to 31.9 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 47 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 25 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-10 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03257; moist when described; observed in pit, small. slickenslides at contact with lower horizon.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459042; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459042
    Btss1—81 to 100 centimeters (31.9 to 39.4 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face clay; 51 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 35 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 7 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-10 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03258; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459044; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459044
    2Btss2—100 to 159 centimeters (39.4 to 62.6 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face clay; 52 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-10 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03259; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459046; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459046
    2Btss3—159 to 186 centimeters (62.6 to 73.2 inches); 40 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face clay; 57 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 20 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-10 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03260; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459048; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459050; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459048; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459050
    2R—186 to 200 centimeters (73.2 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small