IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990KS013006
  • User Pedon ID: 90KS013006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0634
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62560
  • 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: 39.8794441
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7538910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet S and 650 feet W of NE corner
  • Location Description: Brown County, KS
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS013—Brown
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Fortner, Ken Bowell, Stan Glawn
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oska
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 28 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—56

    28—89

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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

    7

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    381

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    45

    89

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03766. many fine roots
    BA—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03767. many fine roots
    Bt1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03768. few clay films surface features; many fine roots; few medium roots
    Bt2—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 5.5 fine roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03769. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features; many fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 225329; continuous - phpvsfiid 225329
    Bt3—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03770. common clay films surface features; few fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 225330; continuous - phpvsfiid 225330
    Cr—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); fragments. weathered limestone and/or shale, in some places limestone is not present and soil is underlain by shale, depth to shale is quite variable over short distances