IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103506
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103506
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103506
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40224
  • 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: 39.1346817
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1503525
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet north and 1600 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: Pe—PAWNEE CLAY LOAM, 4 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES, ERODED
  • 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-B2—McLouth, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic 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 - Oska
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2004
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent at 96cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 26
  • 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, lithic

    indurated

    96 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—70

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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

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); silty clay; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3170
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); silty clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3171
    Bt2—33 to 47 centimeters (13.0 to 18.5 inches); silty clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3172
    Bt3—47 to 77 centimeters (18.5 to 30.3 inches); silty clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3173
    Bt4—77 to 96 centimeters (30.3 to 37.8 inches); silty clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3174
    R—96 to 106 centimeters (37.8 to 41.7 inches); fragments.