IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Geary
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2000KS027005
  • User Pedon ID: 2000KS027005
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KS027005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40140
  • Print Date: 5/21/2024

    • 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: 39.3490448
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1524200
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: N1/2
  • Map Unit: Gc—GEARY SILT LOAM, 2 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS027—Clay
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS027—Clay County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-C2—Clay Center SW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, active, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Geary
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Geary
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey valley side alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 28
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—76

    48—127

    —76—

    —79—
    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

    8

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    380

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    180

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1957; observed in push tube. KSU pedology lab sample 1957. 22.6 % clay, 10.9% total sand, 2.56 % total carbon.
    BA—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1958. KSU pedology lab sample 1958. 34.7 % clay, 11.5% total sand, 1.1 % total carbon.
    Bt1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderately slow permeability; 25 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1959. KSU pedology lab sample 1959. 32.2 % clay, 15.7% total sand, 0.69 % total carbon.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 21140; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 21140
    Bt2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderately slow permeability; 20 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1960. KSU pedology lab sample 1960. 29.9 % clay, 17.3% total sand, 0.56 % total carbon, 1.66% CCE.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 21141; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 21141
    Bt3—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1961. KSU pedology lab sample 1961. 29.3 % clay, 16.6% total sand, 2.9% CCE.; patchy - phpvsfiid 21142; patchy - phpvsfiid 21142
    BC—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter. Lab sample # KSUSS1962. KSU pedology lab sample 1962. 30.1 % clay, 14.5% total sand, 1.86% CCE.