IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basehor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103018
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103018
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40206
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.0291367
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0561371
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet south and 50 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: Loamy, siliceous, superactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basehor
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, superactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 0 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/2004
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 43cm
  • Geology: Tonganoxie Sandstone member of the Stranger formation in the Douglas group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2004 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    43 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—43

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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

    10

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    135

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3008
    Bw1—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3009
    Bw2—26 to 43 centimeters (10.2 to 16.9 inches); sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3010
    Cr—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); fragments.