IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parsons
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012KS099003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012KS099003
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0433
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73163
  • 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: 37.1898417
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1754028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S 12, T 33, R 20
  • Map Unit: 8863—Parsons silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS099—Labette
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS099—Labette County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37095-B2—Labette, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Campbell, 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 - Parsons
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/2012
  • 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 residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Marmaton Group formation of the Pennsylvanian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: G. Campbell, JR Perkins
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    0—28

    18—28

    28—173

    28—221

    84—221

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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

    2

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    260.6

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    160

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01781
    E—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N01782
    Bt1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01783
    Bt2—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01784
    Btg1—84 to 135 centimeters (33.1 to 53.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent faint 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 dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01785
    Btg2—135 to 173 centimeters (53.1 to 68.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 10 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) silt coats on surfaces along pores and 15 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01786
    BCg—173 to 221 centimeters (68.1 to 87.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) silt coats on surfaces along pores; 10 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 25 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01787