IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS103023
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS103023
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS103023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40864
  • 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: 39.2035675
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9769440
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 850 feet north and 400 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 7911—Armster clay loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, erodedAd—ARMSTER LOAM, 8 TO 12 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 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 - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey pedisediment
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • 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 - 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

    30—113

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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

    12

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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) clay loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3759
    BAp—16 to 30 centimeters (6.3 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3760
    Bt1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3761. continuous - phpvsfiid 367297; continuous - phpvsfiid 367297
    Bt2—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3762. continuous - phpvsfiid 367298; continuous - phpvsfiid 367298
    Bt3—91 to 113 centimeters (35.8 to 44.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3763. continuous - phpvsfiid 367299; continuous - phpvsfiid 367299
    2BC—113 to 144 centimeters (44.5 to 56.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 45 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3764
    2C—144 to 186 centimeters (56.7 to 73.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 45 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3765