IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reading
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KS177022s
  • User Pedon ID: 95KS177022s
  • User Site Association ID: 2229Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10695KS177-7160-004
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 45.7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KS177022s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41092
  • 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: 39.1376648
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9250565
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 13 E
  • Section: 35
  • Location Description: Sampled for KSU lab
  • Map Unit: Re—READING SILTY CLAY LOAM, 0 TO 2 PERCENT SLOPES, RARELY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS177—Shawnee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS177—Shawnee County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reading
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 53 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 32.5 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 14.8 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 52.700001 percent of Percent silt in the control section


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Geology: Newman Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/22/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—81

    53—107

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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

    1

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    283

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 11 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0855; observed in push tube. Organic Matter = 3.7 %
    A—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 11 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0856. OM=3.2
    BA—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 33 percent clay; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 15 percent distinct clay films throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0857. OM=2.7; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24875; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24875
    Bt1—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; 21 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 10 percent distinct clay films throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0858. OM=1.8; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24876; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24876
    Bt2—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; 33 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0859. OM=0.9
    BC—107 to 150 centimeters (42.1 to 59.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; 37 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0860. OM=0.7
    C—150 to 178 centimeters (59.1 to 70.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 31 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0861. OM=0.5