IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS103046
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS103046
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS103046
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40234
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.2253876
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0548859
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: feet south and feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: South of Easton
  • Map Unit: 7915—Armster loam, 3 to 6 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-B1—Jarbalo, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Sabata, B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armster
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2005
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over silty and clayey pedisediment
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/7/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    18—137

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    —119—
    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

    8

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3265
    BE—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3266
    Bt1—18 to 35 centimeters (7.1 to 13.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 45 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3267. continuous - phpvsfiid 282743; continuous - phpvsfiid 282743
    Bt2—35 to 61 centimeters (13.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3268. continuous - phpvsfiid 282744; continuous - phpvsfiid 282744
    Bt3—61 to 92 centimeters (24.0 to 36.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3269. continuous - phpvsfiid 282745; continuous - phpvsfiid 282745
    Bt4—92 to 124 centimeters (36.2 to 48.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 282746; continuous - phpvsfiid 282746
    Bt5—124 to 137 centimeters (48.8 to 53.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    C—153 to 199 centimeters (60.2 to 78.3 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silty clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments.