IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gibbon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KS157006
  • User Pedon ID: 09KS157006
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KS157006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40901
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 39.8263893
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8322220
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3 S.
  • Range: 5 W.
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/2 of the corner
  • Location Description: 475 feet South and 1,699 feet East
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS157—Republic
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS157—Republic County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-G7—Scandia, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Gienger, G. Parks, and D. Wood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gibbon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 15 percent of Control Section Clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/8/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 32
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    redox concentrations

    endosaturation

    0—40

    0—7

    7—65

    35—

    —40—

    —7—

    —36—

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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

    1

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    437

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    203

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    Ap—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silt loam; 14 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4610; observed in push tube
    A—7 to 20 centimeters (2.8 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior clay loam; 20 percent sand; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint dendritic grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4611; observed in push tube
    AB—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct irregular dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4612; observed in push tube
    C—40 to 65 centimeters (15.7 to 25.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loamy fine sand; 80 percent sand; 6 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS4613; observed in push tube. Saturated with water at 35cm.