IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cherokee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012KS037002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012KS037002
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0430
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73247
  • 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: 37.3761667
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9231389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S6, T 31, R 23
  • Map Unit: 8460—Cherokee 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-D8—Grindstone Creek, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Campbell, S. Paine
  • 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 - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • 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?: no

    • 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 - 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—20

    20—203

    20—203

    56—203

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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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    270

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate thin platy, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01761
    Btg1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct clay films; 25 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01762
    Btg2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); 20 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 80 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films; 25 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01763
    Btg3—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 80 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01764
    Btg4—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 80 percent gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01765
    Btg5—150 to 165 centimeters (59.1 to 65.0 inches); 80 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01766
    Btg6—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); 80 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01767