IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarcoxie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS103021
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS103021
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS103021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40862
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 39.2015076
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9681778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 7588—Shelby loam, 1 to 3 percent slopesSe—SHELBY LOAM, 1 TO 4 PERCENT SLOPES7555—Sarcoxie silty clay loam, 1 to 4 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: 39094-B8—Basehor, 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 - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 69 cm of Depth to 2Bt


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over fine-loamy drift
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/25/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—40

    25—186

    —40—

    —161—
    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

    6

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    289

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    45

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3801
    Bt1—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3802. continuous - phpvsfiid 363622; continuous - phpvsfiid 363622
    Bt2—40 to 69 centimeters (15.7 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3803. continuous - phpvsfiid 363623; continuous - phpvsfiid 363623
    Bt3—69 to 95 centimeters (27.2 to 37.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3804. continuous - phpvsfiid 363626; continuous - phpvsfiid 363626
    2Bt4—95 to 119 centimeters (37.4 to 46.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3805. continuous - phpvsfiid 363627; continuous - phpvsfiid 363627
    2Bt5—119 to 158 centimeters (46.9 to 62.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3806. continuous - phpvsfiid 363624; continuous - phpvsfiid 363624
    2Bt6—158 to 186 centimeters (62.2 to 73.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 45 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3807. continuous - phpvsfiid 363625; continuous - phpvsfiid 363625