IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hugoton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 11KS189001
  • User Pedon ID: S2011KS189001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0327
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43114
  • 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: 37.3518611
  • Std. Longitude: -101.3554722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31 S.
  • Range: 37 W.
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 8 miles west and 2 miles north of Moscow, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 1617—Hugoton silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS189—Stevens
  • MLRA: 77A—Southern High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS189—Stevens County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37101-C3—Wagon Bed Spring SE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.C. Remley, W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hugoton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess over loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/13/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—19

    19—120

    36—120

    120—

    —19—

    —101—

    —84—

    —-
    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

    1

    —

    —

    946.4

    —

    45

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    —

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    Ap1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium cloddy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N01472; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—11 to 19 centimeters (4.3 to 7.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium cloddy parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N01473; observed in pit, small
    Bk—19 to 36 centimeters (7.5 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent medium irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout and 10 percent medium cylindrical noncoherent cemented worm casts throughout; fragments; 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01474; observed in pit, small
    Btk1—36 to 52 centimeters (14.2 to 20.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 12.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01475; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834857; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834857
    Btk2—52 to 81 centimeters (20.5 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 8 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent medium irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N01476; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834858; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834858
    Btk3—81 to 120 centimeters (31.9 to 47.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N01477; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834859; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834859
    2Bw—120 to 143 centimeters (47.2 to 56.3 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; loam; 34 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 1 to 5 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N01478; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—143 to 168 centimeters (56.3 to 66.1 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; loam; 38 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N01479; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834860; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834860
    2Btk—168 to 200 centimeters (66.1 to 78.7 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; 24 percent sand; 32 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 11N01480; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834861; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834861