IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roxbury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019KS141101
  • User Pedon ID: S2019KS141101
  • User Site Association ID: DSP-KS19-N
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0067
  • 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: 39.3755340
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8624070
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8
  • Range: 14
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 192 feet north and 3562 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Ro—ROXBURY SILT LOAM, RARELY FLOODED2375—Roxbury silt loam, rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS141—Osborne
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS141—Osborne County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-D7—Bloomington, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Bricknell
  • 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
  • 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 - 4/24/2019
  • Classifier - L. Bricknell
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • 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?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - Ro-N2
  • Plot Baseline Length - 10

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: L. Bricknell, R. Still
  • 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

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—220

    0—220

    44—220

    91—142

    142—220

    —220—

    —220—

    —176—

    —51—

    —78—
    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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    511

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    Ap11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 medium roots; fragments; 1.38 g/cm3 of average OD bulk density; 17.78 micrometers per second of average KSAT; 4.55 percent of average OM; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00268
    Ap12—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; moderately hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 medium roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00269
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; 1.43 g/cm3 of average OD bulk density; 1.67 micrometers per second of average KSAT; 3.59 percent of average OM; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00270
    A—20 to 44 centimeters (7.9 to 17.3 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00271
    Bk1—44 to 70 centimeters (17.3 to 27.6 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; 1 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; 1.34 g/cm3 of average OD bulk density; 3.23 micrometers per second of average KSAT; 2.4 percent of average OM; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00272
    2Bk2—70 to 91 centimeters (27.6 to 35.8 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine and 1.0 very fine pores; 3 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bk3—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine and 1.0 very fine pores; 2 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; 1.99 micrometers per second of average KSAT; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bk4—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine and 1.0 very fine pores; 1 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.
    3Bk5—142 to 178 centimeters (55.9 to 70.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine and 1.0 very fine pores; 1 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    3Bk6—178 to 190 centimeters (70.1 to 74.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine prismatic structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine and 1.0 very fine pores; 10 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 1 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    3Bk7—190 to 220 centimeters (74.8 to 86.6 inches);, 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 40 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong fine prismatic parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine and 1.0 very fine pores; 20 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 5 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.