IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarcoxie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS103022
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS103022
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS103022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40863
  • 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: 39.2030907
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9770508
  • 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 - 39 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 83 cm of Depth to 2Bt


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over fine-loamy drift
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • 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—39

    39—178

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    A—0 to 29 centimeters (0.0 to 11.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3808
    BA—29 to 39 centimeters (11.4 to 15.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3809
    Bt1—39 to 55 centimeters (15.4 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3810. continuous - phpvsfiid 363618; continuous - phpvsfiid 363618
    Bt2—55 to 83 centimeters (21.7 to 32.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3811. continuous - phpvsfiid 363619; continuous - phpvsfiid 363619
    2Bt3—83 to 111 centimeters (32.7 to 43.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3812
    2Bt4—111 to 145 centimeters (43.7 to 57.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3813
    2Bt5—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3814