IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muir
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS201038
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS201038
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 01KS201038
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40167
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 39.8908882
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1793976
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 3 miles north and 1.5 miles west of Morrowville, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ho—HOBBS SILT LOAM, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS201—Washington
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS201—Washington County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-H2—Washington NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 70 cm of Depth to buried soil


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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
    • 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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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2066; observed in push tube
    A2—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2067; observed in push tube
    C—53 to 70 centimeters (20.9 to 27.6 inches);, 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 25 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; stratified stratified silt loam; massive; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2068; observed in push tube
    Ab—70 to 100 centimeters (27.6 to 39.4 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2069; observed in push tube
    Bwb1—100 to 140 centimeters (39.4 to 55.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2070; observed in push tube
    Bwb2—140 to 160 centimeters (55.1 to 63.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2071; observed in push tube
    Bwb3—160 to 178 centimeters (63.0 to 70.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2072; observed in push tube
    Bwb4—178 to 200 centimeters (70.1 to 78.7 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2073; observed in push tube
    Bwb5—200 to 220 centimeters (78.7 to 86.6 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2074; observed in push tube
    Bwb6—220 to 240 centimeters (86.6 to 94.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2075; observed in push tube
    Bwb7—240 to 300 centimeters (94.5 to 118.1 inches);, 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 8 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS2076; observed in push tube