IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reading
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KS045101s
  • User Pedon ID: 96KS045101s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KS045101s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41096
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 38.9419441
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1555557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 2200 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Sampled for KSU lab
  • Map Unit: 7213—Reading silt loam, moderately wet, very rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS045—Douglas
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS045—Douglas County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38095-H2—Lawrence East, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans, L. Kichler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • 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 - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 29.799999 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 19.299999 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 50.900002 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 for brief periods
  • Geology: Newman Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 16
  • 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—107

    36—152

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    —116—
    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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    250

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1143
    AB—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1144
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1145. continuous - phpvsfiid 23292; continuous - phpvsfiid 23292
    Bt2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1146. continuous - phpvsfiid 23293; continuous - phpvsfiid 23293
    Bt3—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1147. continuous - phpvsfiid 24500; continuous - phpvsfiid 24500
    Bt4—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 21 percent clay; 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent faint clay films throughout; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1148. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24501; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24501
    2BC—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; 41 percent clay; 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1149