IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS149003
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS149003
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KS149003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40840
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.4296379
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5643311
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • Location Description: About 3 miles east of Olsburg, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 7502—Pawnee clay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS149—Pottawatomie
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS149—Pottawatomie County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-D5—Olsburg, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller, J. Warner, C. Remley, M.D. Ransom
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 62 to 112 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2006
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from mixed over residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    slickensides

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—50

    62—164

    62—

    62—147

    62—164

    —50—

    —102—

    —-

    —85—

    —102—
    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

    5

    —

    —

    424

    —

    135

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    A—0 to 29 centimeters (0.0 to 11.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior silt loam; 24 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3558; observed in trench
    BA—29 to 50 centimeters (11.4 to 19.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior silty clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3559; observed in trench
    BE—50 to 62 centimeters (19.7 to 24.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2 percent distinct silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3560; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338585; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338585
    2Btss1—62 to 117 centimeters (24.4 to 46.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) exterior silty clay; 44 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions on vertical faces of peds and 2 percent very fine faint spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3561; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 338586; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338589; continuous - phpvsfiid 338586; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338589
    2Btss2—117 to 147 centimeters (46.1 to 57.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions on vertical faces of peds and 2 percent very fine faint spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3562; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 338587; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338590; continuous - phpvsfiid 338587; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338590
    2Bt—147 to 164 centimeters (57.9 to 64.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) exterior extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions on vertical faces of peds and 2 percent very fine faint spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 75-?-205 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-20 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3563; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 338588; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338591; continuous - phpvsfiid 338588; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338591
    3C—164 to 190 centimeters (64.6 to 74.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions on vertical faces of peds and 2 percent very fine faint spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; 2 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # KSUSS3564; observed in trench