IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holdrege
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KS089001
  • User Pedon ID: 00KS089001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 00KS089-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KS089001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40141
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 39.7695160
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4490356
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 NE1/4
  • Location Description: Site of the 2000, Jewell County, KS, land judging contest, 3 1/2 miles south and 1 mile west of Esbon, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ho—HOLDREGE SILT LOAM, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS089—Jewell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS089—Jewell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-G4—Esbon, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holdrege
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/29/2012
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 175 cm of Depth to paleosol


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess over loamy pedisediment
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—43

    20—86

    102—152

    175—

    —43—

    —66—

    —50—

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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

    4

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    527

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    270

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1934; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 25 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1935. continuous - phpvsfiid 988486; continuous - phpvsfiid 988486
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1936. continuous - phpvsfiid 988487; continuous - phpvsfiid 988487
    Bt3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 12 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1937. patchy - phpvsfiid 988488; patchy - phpvsfiid 988488
    BC—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1938
    Ck—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, firm; 8 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1939
    C—152 to 175 centimeters (59.8 to 68.9 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, firm; 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1940
    2Bk1—175 to 196 centimeters (68.9 to 77.2 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1941
    2Bk2—196 to 244 centimeters (77.2 to 96.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1942
    2B1—244 to 270 centimeters (96.1 to 106.3 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary.; observed in push tube. This horizon and those below were not sampled and submitted to KSU.
    2B2—270 to 300 centimeters (106.3 to 118.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary.
    2B3—300 to 360 centimeters (118.1 to 141.7 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary.
    2B4—360 to 416 centimeters (141.7 to 163.8 inches);, 50 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) exterior and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2 percent by volume well rounded ? to 3-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    2C—416 to 440 centimeters (163.8 to 173.2 inches);, 70 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, moist; clay loam; massive; hard, firm; 5 percent by volume well rounded ? to 5-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence.