IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018KS179102
  • User Pedon ID: S2018KS179102
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0211
  • User Project ID: DSP
  • Project Name: Dynamic Soil Properties (DSPs) for Soil Health (SH) Assessment - Keith
  • 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: 39.2449260
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5574300
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9
  • Range: 29
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet west and 1448 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: 1623—Keith silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes, south
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS179—Sheridan
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS179—Sheridan County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39100-B5—Grinnell NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Bricknell
  • 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: laboratory sampling 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 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2018
  • Classifier - L. Bricknell
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 30 percent of particle size control section clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Microfeature: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: L. Bricknell
  • 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—86

    64—200

    64—200

    —31—

    —55—

    —136—

    —136—
    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

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N01150; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N01143; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap1—5 to 9 centimeters (2.0 to 3.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N01151; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—9 to 31 centimeters (3.5 to 12.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N01144; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—31 to 50 centimeters (12.2 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 30 percent prominent organoargillans on all faces of peds and 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N01145; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt2—50 to 64 centimeters (19.7 to 25.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; strong fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 35 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N01146; moist when described; observed in trench
    Btk—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N01147; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bk1—86 to 121 centimeters (33.9 to 47.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular pores; 3 percent medium irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N01148; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bk2—121 to 200 centimeters (47.6 to 78.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N01149; moist when described; observed in trench