IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Renthin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS095001
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS095001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS095001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40200
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 37.6036644
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9049530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 1525 feet west and 100 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: About 1/2 mile south and 1 3/4 miles east of Murdock, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ra—RENFROW CLAY LOAM, 1 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS095—Kingman
  • MLRA: 80A—Central Rolling Red Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS095—Kingman County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37097-E8—Murdock, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Vertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Renthin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Vertic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2004
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 122cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 31
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    0—43

    30—91

    91—

    122—

    —43—

    —61—

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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

    2

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    432

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    250

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay loam; moderate coarse granular structure; firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2892; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2893; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2894; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2895; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2896; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches);, 50 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) exterior and 50 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) exterior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2897; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; weak coarse granular structure; firm; 5 percent by volume well rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter shale, clayey fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2898; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); bedrock; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in pit, small