IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roxbury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051009
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1858
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36016
  • 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: 38.8472200
  • Std. Longitude: -99.3141600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet E and 1800 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • Map Unit: Rf—ROXBURY SILT LOAM, FREQUENTLY FLOODED2235—Roxbury silt loam, frequently flooded2236—Roxbury silt loam, occasionally flooded2235—Roxbury silt loam, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-HAY—Hays, Kansas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS051—Ellis County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38099-G3—Hays South, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. M. Allen, L. D. Zavesky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roxbury
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Classifier - Allen and Zavesky
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    0—104

    0—183

    71—104

    —104—

    —183—

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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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    58

    —

    —

    12

    26

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, black (10YR 2/1) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine platy, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14812. 391; many fine and medium roots
    A1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14813. 392; many worm casts concentrations; many fine and medium roots
    A2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14814. 393; many worm casts concentrations; many fine and medium roots
    AC1—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 11 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14815. 394; common worm casts concentrations; common fine and medium roots
    AC2—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 5 percent distinct carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent worm casts and 5 percent fine distinct threadlike very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14816. 395; segregated lime in films and threads.; few worm casts concentrations; common fine and medium roots
    C1—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14817. 396; finely stratified with slightly darker and slightly more clayey horizontal strata.; few fine roots
    C2—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14818. 397; few thin sandier strata.; few fine roots