IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003KS101003
  • User Pedon ID: S2003KS101003
  • User Site Association ID: SPG Uly/Ulysses 3 to 6 percent studymlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0882
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16251
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 38.3179445
  • Std. Longitude: -100.3155000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20S
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 900 feet south and 770 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Lane County, Kansas
  • Map Unit: 1868—Ulysses-Colby silt loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS101—Lane
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS101—Lane County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-C3—Dighton SE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Graber, Bob Tricks, Dan Davis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 15 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loess
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 50
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    0—15

    15—45

    15—200

    45—158

    —15—

    —30—

    —185—

    —113—
    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

    4

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    827.5

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; slightly hard, friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04513
    Bt1—15 to 32 centimeters (5.9 to 12.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04514. continuous - phpvsfiid 1462208; continuous - phpvsfiid 1462208
    Bt2—32 to 45 centimeters (12.6 to 17.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; hard, firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04515. continuous - phpvsfiid 1462207; continuous - phpvsfiid 1462207
    Bk—45 to 83 centimeters (17.7 to 32.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; hard, firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04516
    BC—83 to 119 centimeters (32.7 to 46.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04517
    C1—119 to 158 centimeters (46.9 to 62.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04518
    C2—158 to 200 centimeters (62.2 to 78.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 03N04519