IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muir
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS029004
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS029004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0480
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14820
  • 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: 39.5709000
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5700302
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 0.5 miles west of Rice, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Mr—MUIR SILT LOAM, RARELY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS029—Cloud
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS029—Cloud County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-E5—Rice, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W Wehmueller, P Abel, JC Remley, J Warner, L Gray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/2001
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pleistocene Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row 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

    cambic horizon

    0—114

    114—204

    —114—

    —90—
    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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    408

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02453; observed in trench
    A—30 to 73 centimeters (11.8 to 28.7 inches); silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02454; observed in trench
    Bw1—73 to 114 centimeters (28.7 to 44.9 inches); silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02455; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 238920; continuous - phpvsfiid 238920
    Bw2—114 to 139 centimeters (44.9 to 54.7 inches); silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02456; observed in trench. This horizon is slightly more clayey than the horizons above and below, field estimates are boderline to silty clay loam.; continuous - phpvsfiid 238921; continuous - phpvsfiid 238921
    Bw3—139 to 174 centimeters (54.7 to 68.5 inches); silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02457; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 238922; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 238922
    Bw4—174 to 204 centimeters (68.5 to 80.3 inches); silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 02N02458; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 238923; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 238923