IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elmont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03KS103001
  • User Pedon ID: 03KS103001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 03KS103001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40186
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.0395012
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0354919
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet south and 400 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A1—Tonganoxie, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elmont
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 21 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2003
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 48
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—21

    21—134

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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

    2

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    270

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    A—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2808
    Bt1—21 to 37 centimeters (8.3 to 14.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2809
    Bt2—37 to 58 centimeters (14.6 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2810
    Bt3—58 to 106 centimeters (22.8 to 41.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2811
    Bt4—106 to 134 centimeters (41.7 to 52.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2812
    2Btss5—134 to 190 centimeters (52.8 to 74.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2813
    2Btss6—190 to 233 centimeters (74.8 to 91.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2814