IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muir
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS027011
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS027011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1035
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13537
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 39.3976822
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1591721
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet north and 1600 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 2.0 miles west and 1.5 miles north of Clay Center, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Mu—MUIR SILT LOAM, RARELY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS027—Clay
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS027—Clay County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-D2—Clay Center NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller, C. Remley, M. Ransom
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2008
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Detroit
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 46 cm of Depth to discontinuity and 46 cm of Depth to redoximorphic concentrations


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Geology: Quaternary Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 18
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    0—78

    56—103

    103—

    —78—

    —47—

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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

    0.3

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    —

    369

    —

    180

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    Ap1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium cloddy structure; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N05252; observed in trench
    Ap2—11 to 20 centimeters (4.3 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) exterior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N05253; observed in trench
    AB—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed and black (10YR 2/1) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N05254; observed in trench
    2Btb—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05255; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 198419; continuous - phpvsfiid 198419
    2Bssb1—56 to 78 centimeters (22.0 to 30.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05256; observed in trench
    2Bssb2—78 to 103 centimeters (30.7 to 40.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05257; observed in trench
    2B'tb—103 to 117 centimeters (40.6 to 46.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 10 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries lining pores; 1 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05258; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 198421; patchy - phpvsfiid 198421
    2BCkb—117 to 136 centimeters (46.1 to 53.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed and dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 4 percent medium spherical moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05259; observed in trench
    3C1—136 to 166 centimeters (53.5 to 65.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct cylindrical noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores and 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05260; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 198424; patchy - phpvsfiid 198424
    3C2—166 to 205 centimeters (65.4 to 80.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 10 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct cylindrical noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores and 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 01N05261; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 198422; patchy - phpvsfiid 198422