IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Richfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019KS071001
  • User Pedon ID: S2019KS071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0157
  • User Project ID: FY2020RND2
  • Project Name: NSF project sampling soils for Kansas State University looking at root development under differing management types
  • 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: 38.5798000
  • Std. Longitude: -101.7466700
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 S.
  • Range: 40 W.
  • Section: 16
  • Map Unit: 1856—Ulysses silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS071—Greeley
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Regional Office: 5—Salina, KS
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-GAR—Garden City, Kansas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS071—Greeley County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Nester, L. Bricknell, J. Anderson, M. Stark, C. Tecklenburg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Richfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 17 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/2019
  • Classifier - B. Nester
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/4/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: B. Nester, L. Bricknell, J. Anderson, M. Stark, C. T.
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    0—28

    17—50

    28—200

    28—200

    —28—

    —33—

    —172—

    —172—
    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

    2

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    1107

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    210

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; common (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00538; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—17 to 28 centimeters (6.7 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; semideformable; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; common (1.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 4 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00539; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btk—28 to 50 centimeters (11.0 to 19.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; semideformable; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; common (1.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent very fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00540; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—50 to 84 centimeters (19.7 to 33.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; common (1.0) very fine dendritic tubular and common (1.0) medium dendritic tubular and common (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent coarse distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix and 1 percent very fine distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00541; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—84 to 131 centimeters (33.1 to 51.6 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine dendritic tubular and common (1.0) medium dendritic tubular and common (2.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00542; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—131 to 170 centimeters (51.6 to 66.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine dendritic tubular and common (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent very coarse prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix and 1 percent very fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00543; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—170 to 200 centimeters (66.9 to 78.7 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine dendritic tubular and common (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent very coarse prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix and 1 percent very fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 20N00544; moist when described; observed in pit, small