IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muir
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS027015
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS027015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0461
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15662
  • 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: 39.2895470
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9960556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet south and 650 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 7.5 miles east and 6 miles south 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: 39096-C8—Bala, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller, JC Remley, P. Abel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2008
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 173 cm of Depth to buried soil


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 35
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—96

    63—206

    206—

    —96—

    —143—

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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

    0.5

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    —

    360

    —

    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02365; observed in trench
    A—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02366; observed in trench
    Bw—41 to 63 centimeters (16.1 to 24.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 91 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02367; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 204420; continuous - phpvsfiid 204420
    Bt1—63 to 96 centimeters (24.8 to 37.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02368; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 204421; continuous - phpvsfiid 204421
    Bt2—96 to 137 centimeters (37.8 to 53.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02369; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204422; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204422
    Bt3—137 to 173 centimeters (53.9 to 68.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02370; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 204423; continuous - phpvsfiid 204423
    Btb—173 to 206 centimeters (68.1 to 81.1 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02371; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204424; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 204424
    BCkb—206 to 230 centimeters (81.1 to 90.6 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine distinct spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores and 5 percent fine and medium irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 02N02372; observed in trench