IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Verdigris
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978KS125017
  • User Pedon ID: 78KS125017
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory PedonsPedons to KSU 4/29/2011MLRA 112 - SDJR Verdigris
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78KS125017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40954
  • Print Date: 4/20/2024

    • 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: 37.2928123
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9199982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32S
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet south and 2300 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 1 mile west of Elk City, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 8302—Verdigris silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS125—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS125—Montgomery County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37095-C8—Elk City, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed. Fleming
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Verdigris
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in apr
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R112XY013KS Loamy Lowland (Draft) (PE 35-42)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    253

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    90

    1016

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    198

    15

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    16

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4891
    A—18 to 71 centimeters (7.1 to 28.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4892
    AC—71 to 117 centimeters (28.0 to 46.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4893
    C—117 to 193 centimeters (46.1 to 76.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4894