IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cherokee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012KS021004
  • User Pedon ID: S2012KS021004
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0428
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71606
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 37.1352167
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0066833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S 28, T 33, R 22
  • Map Unit: 8460—Cherokee 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: 37095-B1—Oswego, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Campbell, S. Paine, JR Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Typic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cherokee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Typic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over silty and clayey alluvium
  • 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: 8/10/2012 (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

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    0—28

    28—226

    28—226

    80—226

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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

    0.5

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    254.5

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    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; few (0.0) very fine roots throughout; common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01750
    Bt2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) silt coats and 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01751
    Btg1—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 15 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 2 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01752
    Btg2—104 to 155 centimeters (40.9 to 61.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 15 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 2 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01753
    Btg3—155 to 183 centimeters (61.0 to 72.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01754
    Btg4—183 to 226 centimeters (72.0 to 89.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01755