IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ida
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990KS013003
  • User Pedon ID: 90KS013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0631
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62557
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 39.9869461
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3558350
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet S and 750 feet E of NW corner
  • Location Description: Brown County, KS
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS013—Brown
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Fortner, Cecil Palmer, Ken Bowell
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ida
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed (calcareous) Typic Udorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—61

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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

    10

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    305

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    90

    89

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments, by hydrogen peroxide, 3-4%; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03739. many fine roots
    Ap2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03740. many fine roots
    Ap3—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium blocky structure; hard, friable; 5.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03741. many fine roots; many medium roots
    C1—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium prominent mottles; weak fine and medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03742. few fine roots; few medium roots; common medium prominent 2.5Y62 mottles; few fine 7.5YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C2—58 to 94 centimeters (22.8 to 37.0 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03743. grays & browns are banded, few medium worm casts, bands are tilted somewhat parallel to surface; few fine and medium roots; few medium prominent 7.5YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C3—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03744. gray band contains more carbonates; many fine roots; few medium 10YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C4—119 to 155 centimeters (46.9 to 61.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 90P03745. few fine roots; few coarse 10YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C5—155 to 208 centimeters (61.0 to 81.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 90P03746. few fine roots; common medium 10YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C6—208 to 221 centimeters (81.9 to 87.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 15 percent , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 90P03747. few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; common medium 2.5Y52 mottles; effervescence is continuous