IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014ks179514a
  • User Pedon ID: S2014ks179514a
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-DSP ks179 2014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 39.2138320
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5006512
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10s
  • Range: 29w
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 680 meters south and 167 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-B5—Grinnell NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • 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 Pachic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 34 to 81 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: 10/28/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 59
  • 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—57

    34—81

    81—200

    81—200

    —57—

    —47—

    —119—

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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
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    Ap1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; loose, very friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube
    Ap2—7 to 34 centimeters (2.8 to 13.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube
    Bt1—34 to 57 centimeters (13.4 to 22.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 2 percent distinct skeletans on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1324761; continuous - phpvsfiid 1324757; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1324761; continuous - phpvsfiid 1324757
    Bt2—57 to 81 centimeters (22.4 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 1324759; patchy - phpvsfiid 1324759
    Bk1—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube
    Bk2—152 to 200 centimeters (59.8 to 78.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube