IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elmont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103502
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103502
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103502
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40220
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.0447159
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0860825
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet north and 2200 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Ec—ELMONT SILT LOAM, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES
  • 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: T. Robertson
  • 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: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elmont
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 56 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/2004
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 130cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • 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

    moderately coherent

    130 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—56

    56—130

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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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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior loam; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; ; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3099; observed in push tube
    A2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silt loam; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3100; observed in push tube
    Bt1—56 to 68 centimeters (22.0 to 26.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3101; observed in push tube
    Bt2—68 to 88 centimeters (26.8 to 34.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3102; observed in push tube
    Bt3—88 to 130 centimeters (34.6 to 51.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3103; observed in push tube
    Cr—130 to 140 centimeters (51.2 to 55.1 inches); fragments.; observed in push tube