IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olmitz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS103047
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS103047
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS103047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40235
  • Print Date: 9/17/2024

    • 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: 39.2299728
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0884476
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 500 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: South of Easton
  • Map Unit: 7450—Olmitz clay loam, 1 to 5 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-C1—Easton, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Olmitz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2005
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—62

    62—165

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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

    5

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    225

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3310
    Ap2—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3311
    BA—41 to 62 centimeters (16.1 to 24.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3312
    Bw1—62 to 82 centimeters (24.4 to 32.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3313. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304638; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304638
    Bw2—82 to 114 centimeters (32.3 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3314
    Bw3—114 to 133 centimeters (44.9 to 52.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions and 20 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3315
    BC4—133 to 165 centimeters (52.4 to 65.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions and 50 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3316
    C—165 to 192 centimeters (65.0 to 75.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions and 20 percent coarse faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3317