IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Falleaf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS103501
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS103501
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KS103501
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40828
  • 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: 39.0130539
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9250031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet east and 550 feet south of the northwest 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: 39094-A8—Bonner Springs, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Falleaf
  • PSC - 29 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Konawa
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy eolian sands
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Menoken Surface formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 50
  • 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—29

    29—118

    —29—

    —89—
    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

    2.5

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    360

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    A1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3611; observed in push tube
    A2—14 to 29 centimeters (5.5 to 11.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3612; observed in push tube
    Bt1—29 to 49 centimeters (11.4 to 19.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3613; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 332140; continuous - phpvsfiid 332140
    Bt2—49 to 63 centimeters (19.3 to 24.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3614; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 332141; continuous - phpvsfiid 332141
    Bt3—63 to 90 centimeters (24.8 to 35.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3615; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 332143; continuous - phpvsfiid 332143
    Bt4—90 to 118 centimeters (35.4 to 46.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3616; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 332144; continuous - phpvsfiid 332145; continuous - phpvsfiid 332144; continuous - phpvsfiid 332145
    BC—118 to 137 centimeters (46.5 to 53.9 inches); 7.5YR 4/5 (7.5YR 4/5) exterior sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3617; observed in push tube
    C—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3618; observed in push tube