IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parsons
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012KS037001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012KS037001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0429
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73109
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.5126389
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7096389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S19, T 29, R 25
  • Map Unit: 8863—Parsons silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS037—Crawford
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS037—Crawford County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-E6—Arma, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Campbell, S. Paine
  • 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 - Parsons
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 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: loess over residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Cherokee Group formation of the Pennsylvanian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: G. Campbell, S. Paine
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    reduced matrix

    0—56

    25—107

    25—135

    56—135

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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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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01756
    Btg1—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 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; 25 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01757
    Btg2—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films; 15 percent coarse black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 25 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01758
    Btg3—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 20 percent gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01759
    BC—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01760
    135 centimeters (53.1 inches); fragments.