IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olmitz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994KS013003
  • User Pedon ID: 94KS013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0417
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66638
  • 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: 39.6685750
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7788250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 2550 feet W and 280 feet N of the SE corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS013—Brown
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS013—Brown County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-F7—Wetmore, Kansas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cleveland Watts Steve Schienoft
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Olmitz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    cambic horizon

    0—97

    61—203

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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

    3

    270

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P02688
    A1—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P02689
    A2—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P02690
    Bw1—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P02691
    Bw2—97 to 119 centimeters (38.2 to 46.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02692
    Bw3—119 to 145 centimeters (46.9 to 57.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 4 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02693. patchy - phpvsfiid 176250; patchy - phpvsfiid 176250
    Bw4—145 to 173 centimeters (57.1 to 68.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02694. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176251; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176251
    Bw5—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02695