IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LANCASTER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953KS169006
  • User Pedon ID: S1953KS169006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1953KS169006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1794
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35952
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 38.8122559
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8581238
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 0.2 mile west and 300 feet south of the NE corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS169—Saline
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS169—Saline County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Erick B. Nilson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LANCASTER
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lancaster
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/1953 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    BRTE

    SPCR

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bromus tectorum

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    blue grama

    cheatgrass

    sand dropseed

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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

    4

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    A11—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; top of horizon; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14301
    A12—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14302
    AB—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam, clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A14303
    B2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A14304
    B3—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium mottles; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A14305. Few black spots.
    C1—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 21 percent light gray (N 7/0) coarse prominent and 21 percent black (10YR 2/1) coarse prominent and 21 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) coarse prominent mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A14306
    R—94 to 107 centimeters (37.0 to 42.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A14307. Not sampled. Stratified gray clay shale and yellowish red sandstone.