IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grundy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103056
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103056
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40213
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 39.0263977
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1566925
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet south and 2000 feet west of the northeast corner
  • 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grundy
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Haig
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2004
  • 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
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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—61

    26—106

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    —80—
    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

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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 granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3746; observed in push tube
    A—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3747; observed in push tube
    Bt1—26 to 44 centimeters (10.2 to 17.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) 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 # KSUSS3748; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367333; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367333
    Bt2—44 to 61 centimeters (17.3 to 24.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) 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 # KSUSS3749; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 367334; continuous - phpvsfiid 367334
    Bt3—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) 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 # KSUSS3750; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367335; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367335
    Bt4—71 to 106 centimeters (28.0 to 41.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) 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 # KSUSS3751; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367336; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367336
    BC—106 to 139 centimeters (41.7 to 54.7 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) 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 # KSUSS3752; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367337; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367337
    C—139 to 176 centimeters (54.7 to 69.3 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; massive; 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 # KSUSS3753; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367338; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367338