IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nibson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS167001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS167001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0464
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15665
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.7540550
  • Std. Longitude: -98.7877579
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet west and 300 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: About 9 miles south and 4 miles east of Russell, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ns—NIBSON SILT LOAM, 5 TO 25 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS167—Russell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS167—Russell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38098-G7—Homer, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.C. Remley, W. Wehmueller, B. Tricks, J. McDowell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nibson
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Entic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 34 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/2001
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered limestone and shale at 34cm
  • Geology: Greenhorn Formation formation of the Colorado Group group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 60
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    34 - 55

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—34

    15—34

    34—

    —34—

    —19—

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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

    8

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    575

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    270

    660

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    174

    12.2

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; silt loam; 27 percent clay; slightly hard, friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat ? to 2-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02385; observed in pit, small
    Bw—15 to 34 centimeters (5.9 to 13.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; channery silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 2-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat 4-6-16 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02386; observed in pit, small
    Cr1—34 to 50 centimeters (13.4 to 19.7 inches); bedrock; 3.0 fine roots in cracks and 1.0 coarse roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr2—50 to 55 centimeters (19.7 to 21.7 inches); bedrock; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.