IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zaar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017KS011001
  • User Pedon ID: S2017KS011001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 - Zaar project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0570
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87422
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 37.7900350
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9961433
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26 S
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 15
  • Map Unit: 8990—Zaar silty clay, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS011—Bourbon
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-G8—Uniontown, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gene Campbell and John Patton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zaar
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2017
  • Classifier - GC, JCP
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth 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: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R112XY007KS Clay Upland (PE 35-42)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/22/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    0—79

    50—158

    50—200

    —79—

    —108—

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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

    0.5

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    285.6

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; weak medium platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02918
    Ap2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02919
    A—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; common (2.0) very fine roots and common (2.0) fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02920
    Bw1—50 to 79 centimeters (19.7 to 31.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; few (0.5) very fine roots and common (2.0) fine roots; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02921
    Bw2—79 to 103 centimeters (31.1 to 40.6 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very few (0.2) very fine roots; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 15 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02922
    Bw3—103 to 128 centimeters (40.6 to 50.4 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 30 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 2 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02923
    Bw4—128 to 158 centimeters (50.4 to 62.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 30 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 10 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02924
    BC—158 to 200 centimeters (62.2 to 78.7 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 50 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 5 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02925