IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051003
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1827
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35985
  • 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: 39.1250000
  • Std. Longitude: -99.0999985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet N and 1100 feet W of the center
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.W. McBee, R.F. Harner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1968 (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
    • 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

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    58

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    12

    26

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    1A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14562. 321; common fine roots
    1A12—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14563. 322; few fine chalk fragments and fewer quartz grains of fine gravel size; common fine roots
    1A3ca—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14564. 323; few to common fine chalk fragments up to about 13 mm in diameter; common fine roots
    1B21ca—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches);, pale red (10R 6/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14565. 324; many small pockets or nests of worm cast granules; few filled root channels about 6 mm in diameter; common fine soft round accumulations and threads of segregated lime and common fine chalk fragments becoming more numerous with depth; few fine roots
    1B22ca—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, coats; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14566. few fine roots
    1B3ca—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, coats; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14567. 326; common fine to medium spheriodal soft lime accumulations making up about 5% by volume; few fine roots
    2C—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14568. 327; few fine chalk fragments; few fine roots