IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013ks063021
  • User Pedon ID: S2013ks063021
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-SDJR comp peds
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0261
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74444
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 39.0628722
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5982111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11s
  • Range: 30w
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 608 meters west and 106 meters north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 5.6 kilometers south and 2.4 kilometers east of Grinnell, Kansas
  • Map Unit: 1619—Keith silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS063—Gove
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS063—Gove County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39100-A5—Sunny Slope Lake, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2013
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 11
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    0—36

    10—60

    36—200

    60—200

    —36—

    —50—

    —164—

    —140—
    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

    —

    —

    878.7

    —

    350

    480

    —

    160

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. Platy structure in the bottom 2cm of this horizon.
    Bt—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1229674; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1229674
    Btk—36 to 60 centimeters (14.2 to 23.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 6 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. The matrix of this horizon has no free carbonates, but the carbonate threads have slight effervescence.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1229675; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1229675
    Bk1—60 to 94 centimeters (23.6 to 37.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—94 to 132 centimeters (37.0 to 52.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—132 to 180 centimeters (52.0 to 70.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 7.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small