IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994KS045004
  • User Pedon ID: 94KS045004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0810
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66981
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.8961105
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3436127
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 900 FEET SOUTH AND 2600 FEET WEST OF THE NORTH EAST CORNER
  • 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-H3—Lawrence West, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Watts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oska
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Vertic Paleudolls
  • PSC - 20 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 18
  • 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—51

    28—97

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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

    4

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    308

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 50.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06360
    A—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06361
    Bt1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; silty clay; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 30.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06362. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180822; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180822
    Bt2—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; silty clay; 50 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) organic stains on faces of peds and 55 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films throughout; 5 percent fine spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions between peds; 3 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06363. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180823; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180824; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180823; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180824
    Bt3—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; silty clay; 50 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds and 35 percent faint clay films throughout; 5 percent fine spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions between peds; 3 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06364. fragment are mostly chert; continuous - phpvsfiid 180825; continuous - phpvsfiid 180826; continuous - phpvsfiid 180825; continuous - phpvsfiid 180826
    R—97 to 97 centimeters (38.2 to 38.2 inches); fragments. Limestone Bedrock