IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS005005
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS005005
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS005005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40846
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.4400673
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1803436
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet north and 100 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: Ar—ARMSTER CLAY LOAM, 6 TO 12 PERCENT SLOPES7911—Armster clay loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS005—Atchison
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS005—Atchison County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-D2—Potter, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic 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 Mollic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/10/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 71 cm of Loess cap thickness


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey pedisediment
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 31
  • 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—10

    10—107

    —10—

    —97—
    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

    10

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    —

    262

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    90

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3815
    Bt1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3816
    Bt2—18 to 37 centimeters (7.1 to 14.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3817. continuous - phpvsfiid 368235; continuous - phpvsfiid 368235
    Bt3—37 to 71 centimeters (14.6 to 28.0 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3818. continuous - phpvsfiid 368236; continuous - phpvsfiid 368236
    2Bt4—71 to 92 centimeters (28.0 to 36.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese nodules; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3819. continuous - phpvsfiid 368237; continuous - phpvsfiid 368237
    2Bt5—92 to 117 centimeters (36.2 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese nodules; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3820. continuous - phpvsfiid 368238; continuous - phpvsfiid 368238