IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lancaster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS201040
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS201040
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 01KS201040
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40169
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 39.8901482
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1787415
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 3 miles north and 1.5 miles west of Morrowville, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Lo—LONGFORD SILT LOAM, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS201—Washington
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS201—Washington County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-H2—Washington NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lancaster
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Longford
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 107 cm of Depth to discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium over clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered shale, clayey at 148cm
  • Geology: Dakota Sandstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    148 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—48

    48—107

    148—

    —48—

    —59—

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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

    7

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    416

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    360

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    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2085; observed in push tube
    BA—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior, moist; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2086
    Bt1—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2087
    Bt2—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2088
    2BC1—107 to 134 centimeters (42.1 to 52.8 inches); variegated, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, moist; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent by volume rounded 25-30-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2089
    2BC2—134 to 148 centimeters (52.8 to 58.3 inches); variegated, gray (10YR 5/1) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2 percent by volume rounded 25-35-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2090
    2Cr—148 to 170 centimeters (58.3 to 66.9 inches); fragments.