IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS171042
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS171042
  • User Site Association ID: 05MLRA72-1619Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 7205KS171-1619-4
  • Transect Stop Number - 12
  • Transect Interval - 158.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS171042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40806
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 38.3579712
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8318634
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19s
  • Range: 32w
  • Section: 35
  • Location Description: 668 meters north and 36 meters east of the Southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1619—Keith silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS171—Scott
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS171—Scott County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-C7—Pawnee Mound, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 23 cm of depth to secondary carbonates


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    0—23

    5—86

    —23—

    —81—
    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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    —

    913.2

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3256; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 294451; patchy - phpvsfiid 294451
    Bt—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3257; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 294452; continuous - phpvsfiid 294452
    Btk1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 7 percent fine irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3258; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 294453; continuous - phpvsfiid 294453
    Btk2—41 to 86 centimeters (16.1 to 33.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 294454; patchy - phpvsfiid 294454
    Bk—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed, moist; loam; 17 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.4 very fine roots in cracks and 0.2 fine roots in cracks; 0.6 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 7 percent fine irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    BCk—112 to 163 centimeters (44.1 to 64.2 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed, moist; loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium prismatic structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 6 percent fine irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Ck—163 to 236 centimeters (64.2 to 92.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed, moist; loam; 17 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.2 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout; 0.4 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent fine irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube