IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muir
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KS157005
  • User Pedon ID: 09KS157005
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KS157005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40900
  • 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: 39.9127235
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9048920
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 S.
  • Range: 5 W.
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet south and 2500 feet east of the NE 1/4 corner
  • Map Unit: Hu—HUMBARGER LOAM, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED3593—Humbarger loam, occasionally flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS157—Republic
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS157—Republic County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-H8—Scandia NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 24.6 percent of Control Section Clay and 27 cm of Top effervescence and 138 cm of Bottom effervescence


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/22/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 16
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row 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

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—27

    27—86

    86—207

    —27—

    —59—

    —121—
    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

    1

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    464

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4292; observed in push tube. Fine roots throughtout profile.
    AB—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4293; observed in push tube. Fine roots throughtout profile.
    Bw1—27 to 51 centimeters (10.6 to 20.1 inches);, 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4294; observed in push tube. Fine roots throughtout profile.
    Bw2—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4295; observed in push tube. Fine roots throughtout profile.
    Bk1—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4296; observed in push tube. Fine roots throughtout profile.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 443605; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 443605
    Bk2—117 to 138 centimeters (46.1 to 54.3 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent fine distinct threadlike extremely weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4297; observed in push tube. Fine roots throughtout profile.; Depth 126-138 cm, textures and color lightens. (10YR 4/3). Could be possible strata or silt coats on top of ped faces.
    2Bk3—138 to 169 centimeters (54.3 to 66.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent fine distinct threadlike extremely weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4298; observed in push tube. Fine roots throughtout profile.
    2Bk4—169 to 207 centimeters (66.5 to 81.5 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine distinct threadlike extremely weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # KSUSS4299; observed in push tube. Possibly faint, poorly developed clay films on ped faces.; Fine roots throughtout profile.