IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarcoxie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS103437
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS103437
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS103437
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40244
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 39.0201492
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9602814
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet north and 1200 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, 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 - Sarcoxie
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2005
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 89 cm of Depth to 2Bt


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—125

    —33—

    —92—
    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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3295
    A—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3296
    Bt1—33 to 62 centimeters (13.0 to 24.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3297. continuous - phpvsfiid 304639; continuous - phpvsfiid 304639
    Bt2—62 to 89 centimeters (24.4 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3298. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304640; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304640
    2Bt3—89 to 125 centimeters (35.0 to 49.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 45 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3299. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304641; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304641
    2BC—125 to 160 centimeters (49.2 to 63.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 60 percent coarse distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3300
    2C—160 to 185 centimeters (63.0 to 72.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 60 percent coarse distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3301