IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eudora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92KS045101
  • User Pedon ID: 92KS045101
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 92KS045101
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41005
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.9983406
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1877213
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet south and 300 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: SOIL SAMPLED
  • Map Unit: 7176—Rossville silt loam, very rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS045—Douglas
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS045—Douglas County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38095-H2—Lawrence East, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eudora
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding for brief periods
  • Geology: Newman Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/2/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—74

    74—117

    —74—

    —43—
    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

    1

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    251

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1537
    A1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1538
    A2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1539
    Bw—74 to 117 centimeters (29.1 to 46.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1540
    C1—117 to 137 centimeters (46.1 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) stratified silt loam, very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1541
    C2—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) loamy very fine sand; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1542