IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Benfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987KS161005
  • User Pedon ID: 87KS161005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0452
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59747
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 39.0933342
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5397186
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet north and 400 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Riley County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS161—Riley
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. D. Ransom, H. Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Benfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1987 (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

    10

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02358. many fine roots throughout
    1AB—10 to 35 centimeters (3.9 to 13.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very cherty silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02359. many fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    1Bt1—35 to 63 centimeters (13.8 to 24.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent medium irregular clay bodies; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02360. common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few medium clay bodies concentrations; many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 232081; continuous - phpvsfiid 232081
    1Bt2—63 to 74 centimeters (24.8 to 29.1 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, moist; shaly silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium irregular clay bodies; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02361. Coarse fragments are mostly shale with lesser amounts of highly weathered chert.; common medium clay bodies concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 232082; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 232082
    1BC—74 to 92 centimeters (29.1 to 36.2 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; very shaly silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent medium irregular clay bodies; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02362. Clay flows are (10YR 4/3), coarse fragments are equal amounts of shale and highly weathered chert.; common medium clay bodies concentrations; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Cr—92 to 110 centimeters (36.2 to 43.3 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; massive; very hard, very firm; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 87P02363. effervescence is continuous