IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roxbury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051011
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968KS051011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1859
  • 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: 38.9105568
  • Std. Longitude: -99.3991699
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet W and 1400 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. M. Allen, R. F. Harner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roxbury
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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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

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    58

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    12

    26

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    1Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium platy, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14819. 398; many fine roots
    1Ap2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse platy, and weak medium granular structure; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14820. 399; few fine roots
    1A13—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14821. 400; many worm casts concentrations; few fine roots
    1A14—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 11 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14822. 401; few thin films of segregated lime.; common worm casts concentrations; few very fine roots
    1A15—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14823. 402; common fine threads of segregated lime.; common worm casts concentrations; few fine roots
    1B2—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14824. 403; common fine threads of segregated lime.; few fine roots
    1C1—127 to 173 centimeters (50.0 to 68.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14825. 404; films and threads of lime are thicker and more common than in B2 horizon.
    1C2—173 to 193 centimeters (68.1 to 76.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14826. 405; dark films on some faces of peds.