IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ness
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981KS135001
  • User Pedon ID: 81KS135001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0654
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49498
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 38.6094437
  • Std. Longitude: -99.9338913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 24W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 420 meters W and 45 meters S of the NE corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS135—Ness
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. E. Mayhugh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Pellusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ness
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ness
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Udic Pellustert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1981 (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
  • 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

    0

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    760

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    12

    25

    0

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; weak medium granular structure; hard, firm; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03895. many fine roots throughout
    1A1—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03896
    1A2—38 to 63 centimeters (15.0 to 24.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03897. many intersecting slickensides surface features
    1A3—63 to 81 centimeters (24.8 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03898
    1AC—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03899
    1C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 81P03900