IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hobbs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS027016
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS027016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0462
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15663
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 39.2866898
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9958878
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet south and 600 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 7.5 miles east and 6 miles south of Clay Center, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ho—HOBBS SILT LOAM, OCCASIONALLY 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, nonacid, mesic Mollic Ustifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hobbs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2008
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hobbs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 118 cm of Depth to buried soil


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    0—53

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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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    357

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    180

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed stratified stratified silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02373; observed in trench. A subsample from the 3 to 5 cm layer was collected for the global climate change project.
    A2—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02374; observed in trench
    C—53 to 85 centimeters (20.9 to 33.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior stratified stratified silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02375; observed in trench
    C—85 to 118 centimeters (33.5 to 46.5 inches); stratified stratified silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 02N02376; observed in trench
    Ab—118 to 143 centimeters (46.5 to 56.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02377; observed in trench
    C'—143 to 200 centimeters (56.3 to 78.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior stratified stratified silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 02N02378; observed in trench