IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chillicothe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS103406
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS103406
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS103406
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40243
  • 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: 39.1480560
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1205521
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet north and 1400 feet east of the southwest corner
  • 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-A2—Midland, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Paleudolls
  • 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 - Chillicothe
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oska
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 36 cm of Depth to lithologic discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated at 133cm
  • Geology: Kereford Limestone member of the Oread Limestone formation in the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2005 (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

    147 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    30—147

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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
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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3276
    A—16 to 30 centimeters (6.3 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3277
    2Bt1—30 to 54 centimeters (11.8 to 21.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 45 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 1 percent by volume flat indurated 5-?-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3278. continuous - phpvsfiid 299127; continuous - phpvsfiid 299127
    2Bt2—54 to 83 centimeters (21.3 to 32.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 40 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 5-?-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 1 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3279. continuous - phpvsfiid 299128; continuous - phpvsfiid 299128
    2Bt3—83 to 124 centimeters (32.7 to 48.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 55 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 8 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 75-?-150 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3280. continuous - phpvsfiid 299129; continuous - phpvsfiid 299129
    2Bt4—124 to 147 centimeters (48.8 to 57.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 75-?-150 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3281. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299130; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299130
    2R—147 to 157 centimeters (57.9 to 61.8 inches); fragments.