IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973KS183001
  • User Pedon ID: 73KS183001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1878
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36036
  • Print Date: 4/28/2024

    • 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: 39.7072411
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5970383
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet S and 550 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Smith County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS183—Smith

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: V. L. Hamilton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Mollic Natrustalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Mollic Natrustalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1973 (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

    6

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    61

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    13

    26

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14978. 487; common fine roots
    1B2t—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium columnar structure; extremely hard, very firm; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14979. 488; common fine roots
    1B31—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14980. 489; common fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine roots
    1B32—58 to 99 centimeters (22.8 to 39.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14981. 490; common soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine roots
    1C—99 to 107 centimeters (39.0 to 42.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14982. 491; few roots
    1R—107 centimeters (42.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A14983. 492; white chalky limestone.