IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscotah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02KS197008
  • User Pedon ID: 02KS197008
  • User Site Association ID: 02KS197- Holz wetland determinationKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10602KS197-7209-008
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 02KS197008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40178
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 39.1689873
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1379395
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1650 feet south and 2825 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 7 miles north and 1 mile east of Paxico, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Wb—WABASH SILTY CLAY, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS197—Wabaunsee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS197—Wabaunsee County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-B2—Belvue, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Aquertic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscotah
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Aquertic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2002
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 20 cm of Depth to redoximorphic concentrations


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Geology: Quaternary Alluvium-colluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/29/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 7
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    0—80

    80—

    —80—

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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

    0.5

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    292

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) exterior silty clay; weak fine granular structure; very firm; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2412; observed in push tube
    A—20 to 52 centimeters (7.9 to 20.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior silty clay; weak fine granular structure; very firm; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2413; observed in push tube
    Bw1—52 to 80 centimeters (20.5 to 31.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) exterior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2414; observed in push tube
    Bw2—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) exterior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2415; observed in push tube
    Bw3—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) exterior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; 2 percent fine and medium spherical moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2416; observed in push tube
    Bk—150 to 185 centimeters (59.1 to 72.8 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) exterior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium spherical moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS2417; observed in push tube