IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Inavale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10KS0295004
  • User Pedon ID: 10KS0295004
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 10KS0295004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40919
  • 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: 39.6364670
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7395248
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5
  • Range: 4w
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS029—Cloud
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS029—Cloud County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-F6—Concordia NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Wood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, superactive, mesic Typic Ustifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Inavale
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, superactive, mesic Typic Ustifluvents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 6 percent of control section clay and 113 cm of depth to dand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: 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: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—13

    168—

    —13—

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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

    4

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    422

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    240

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 4 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4712; moist when described; observed in push tube
    AC—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 7 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4713; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C1—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4714; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C2—71 to 113 centimeters (28.0 to 44.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 7 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4715; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C3—113 to 168 centimeters (44.5 to 66.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior loamy fine sand; 80 percent sand; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4716; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Ab—168 to 230 centimeters (66.1 to 90.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS4717; moist when described; observed in push tube