IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Taloka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012KS021001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012KS021001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0425
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70669
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.0171278
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8410778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S 1, T 35, R 23
  • Map Unit: 8927—Taloka silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS021—Cherokee
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS021—Cherokee County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-A7—Neutral, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Campbell, S. Paine, JR Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Taloka
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium over residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Cherokee Group formation of the Pennsylvanian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: G. Campbell, S. Paine, JR Perkins
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    0—46

    28—46

    46—229

    46—229

    99—214

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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

    1

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    260.6

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular, and moderate thin platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01729
    E—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); 80 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bt1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01731
    Bt2—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Btg3—99 to 137 centimeters (39.0 to 53.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate thick platy structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btg4—137 to 193 centimeters (53.9 to 76.0 inches); 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate thick platy structure; firm; 30 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    BCg—193 to 229 centimeters (76.0 to 90.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate thick platy structure; firm; 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.