IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grundy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103055
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103055
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103055
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40212
  • 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: 39.0333328
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0333328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 7252—Grundy silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grundy
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Peorian Loess member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/2004 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—118

    —25—

    —93—
    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

    3

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    0

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3739; observed in push tube
    Bt1—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3740; observed in push tube
    Bt2—21 to 49 centimeters (8.3 to 19.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3741; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367324; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367324
    Bt3—49 to 83 centimeters (19.3 to 32.7 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3742; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 367325; continuous - phpvsfiid 367325
    Bt4—83 to 100 centimeters (32.7 to 39.4 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3743; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367326; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367326
    Bt5—100 to 139 centimeters (39.4 to 54.7 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3744; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367327; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367327
    BC5—139 to 171 centimeters (54.7 to 67.3 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3745; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367328; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367328