IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roxbury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: rarely flooded
  • User Site ID: S2019KS063101
  • User Pedon ID: S2019KS063101
  • User Site Association ID: DSP-KS19-R
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0637
  • User Project ID: FY19RND3
  • Project Name: MLRA 73 - Benchmark Soils Roxbury FY19 Phase 1
  • 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: 38.9922940
  • Std. Longitude: -100.7301700
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12s
  • Range: 31w
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 870 feet north and 2260 feet west of SE corner of 28-4s-19w
  • Map Unit: 2375—Roxbury silt loam, rarely flooded2375—Roxbury silt loam, rarely flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS063—Gove
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-HAY—Hays, Kansas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS063—Gove County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-H6—Orion, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Laura Bricknell, Ryan Still
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Roxbury
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/18/2022
  • Classifier - L. Bricknell
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roxbury
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2019
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 24 percent of control section clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: terrace on river valley
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - Ro-R2

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: L. Bricknell & R. Still
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 30
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—86

    21—200

    69—200

    190—200

    —86—

    —179—

    —131—

    —10—
    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

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    864.6

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    180

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; 1.08 g/cm3 of average OD bulk density; 40.39 micrometers per second of average KSAT; 7.1 percent of average OM; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 19N03658; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube
    A12—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 19N03659; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube
    A13—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; fragments; 1.36 g/cm3 of average OD bulk density; 5.17 micrometers per second of average KSAT; 2.5 percent of average OM; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 19N03660; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube
    A2—21 to 41 centimeters (8.3 to 16.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; 2.0 medium roots throughout; 1.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03661; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube
    A3—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; 1.28 g/cm3 of average OD bulk density; 8.26 micrometers per second of average KSAT; 1.8 percent of average OM; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03662; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bk1—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 1.0 medium roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bk2—86 to 116 centimeters (33.9 to 45.7 inches);, 90 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine prismatic structure; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses throughout; fragments; 1.74 micrometers per second of average KSAT; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bk3—116 to 190 centimeters (45.7 to 74.8 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 21 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic structure; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bk4—190 to 200 centimeters (74.8 to 78.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; slightly moist when described; observed in push tube. Visable medium sand grains.