IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014ks179510a
  • User Pedon ID: S2014ks179510a
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-DSP ks179 2014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/8/2025

    • 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: 39.2280140
  • Std. Longitude: -100.4831241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9s
  • Range: 28w
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 717 meters south and 255 meters west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 1623—Keith silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes, south
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS179—Sheridan County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39100-B4—Midway Draw West, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 31 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/2014
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 52
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    0—31

    31—66

    66—200

    66—200

    —31—

    —35—

    —134—

    —134—
    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
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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube
    Bw—8 to 31 centimeters (3.1 to 12.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent faint pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1324738; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1324738
    Bt—31 to 66 centimeters (12.2 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong fine prismatic structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 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.; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1324739; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1324739
    Bk1—66 to 96 centimeters (26.0 to 37.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube
    Bk2—96 to 200 centimeters (37.8 to 78.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube