IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015KS123101
  • User Pedon ID: S2015KS123101
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 8
  • Range: 9
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 910 feet south and 2181 feet east of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: Hc—HARNEY-CORINTH SILTY CLAY LOAMS, 3 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES, ERODED2621—Harney-Corinth silty clay loams, 3 to 7 percent slopes, eroded
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS123—Mitchell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-C3—Blue Hill, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Still, L. Bricknell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2015
  • Classifier - R. Still, L. Bricknell
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 36 percent of control section clay


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/2015 ()
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—114

    75—200

    114—

    —25—

    —89—

    —125—

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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

    6

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    480

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; many (8.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; common (4.0) very fine roots; common (3.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—51 to 75 centimeters (20.1 to 29.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btk1—75 to 87 centimeters (29.5 to 34.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; 2 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 2 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btk2—87 to 114 centimeters (34.3 to 44.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular and few (1.0) fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses and 2 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2A—114 to 138 centimeters (44.9 to 54.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular and few (1.0) fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 6 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btk1—138 to 158 centimeters (54.3 to 62.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent faint organoargillans on surfaces along root channels and 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 4 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btk2—158 to 193 centimeters (62.2 to 76.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 7 percent prominent organoargillans on surfaces along root channels and 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btk3—193 to 220 centimeters (76.0 to 86.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; hard, firm; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 4 percent prominent organoargillans on surfaces along root channels and 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent very fine faint threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in pit, small