IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS103071
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS103071
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS103071
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40879
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.1715851
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9531937
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: Ad—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: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armster
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: 12/4/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 28
  • 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—18

    18—108

    —18—

    —90—
    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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    270

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3945
    2Bt1—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3946. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 385921; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 385921
    2Bt2—31 to 52 centimeters (12.2 to 20.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3947. continuous - phpvsfiid 385922; continuous - phpvsfiid 385922
    2Bt3—52 to 74 centimeters (20.5 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3948. continuous - phpvsfiid 385923; continuous - phpvsfiid 385923
    2Bt4—74 to 108 centimeters (29.1 to 42.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3949. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 385924; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 385924