IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KS105001ksu
  • User Pedon ID: 00KS105001ksu
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KS105001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40144
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 39.0881386
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3776093
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: Site of Lincoln County Conservation Field Day, 5 1/2 miles north and 1 mile east of Sylvan Grove, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 2521—Armo loam, 7 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS105—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS105—Lincoln County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-A4—Sylvan Grove, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Calciustolls
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Armo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armo
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium derived from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—36

    36—154

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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

    6

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    466

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    180

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1980; observed in push tube
    Bw—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; moderate permeability; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-10-50 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1981
    Bk1—36 to 76 centimeters (14.2 to 29.9 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 5 percent fine irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1982
    Bk2—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 10 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1983
    Bk3—122 to 154 centimeters (48.0 to 60.6 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 5 percent coarse spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix and 10 percent fine irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # KSUSS1984