IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Niotaze
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984KS125001
  • User Pedon ID: 84KS125001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984KS125001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0822
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55060
  • 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: 37.2527771
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9236145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32S
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 500 meters E and 23 meters N of SW corner
  • Location Description: South of Elk City
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS125—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. D. Owens, S. P. Graber, and E. L. Fleming
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Aquic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Niotaze
  • PSC - 18 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Niotaze
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Aquic Paleustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Bedrock: with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUMA3

    QUST

    Quercus marilandica

    Quercus stellata

    blackjack oak

    post oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    8—18

    18—61

    86—100

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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

    9

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    270

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    90

    95

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    15

    27

    4

    16

    28

    5

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 18 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04660; moist when described;. Common worm casts.; common fine and medium roots throughout
    1E—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04661; moist when described;. common fine and medium roots throughout
    2Bt1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay; strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04662; moist when described;. Few filled cracks with lighter colored material from above; 10YR 6/3 silt coatings on ped faces in upper 2 cm.; few fine and medium roots throughout
    2Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay; 11 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) medium distinct and 11 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04663; moist when described;. few fine and medium roots throughout; common medium distinct 10YR41 mottles; common medium distinct 5YR44 mottles
    2BC—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and gray (10YR 6/1) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and gray (10YR 5/1) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, moist; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 84P04664; moist when described;. Few coarse brown concretions.; few medium and coarse roots throughout
    1Cr—86 to 100 centimeters (33.9 to 39.4 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Soft, weakly laminated gray silty shale. Not sampled.