IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KS177011s
  • User Pedon ID: 94KS177011s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KS177011s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41063
  • 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: 38.0872955
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7998886
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 14 E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet north and 400 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: Mr—MUIR SILT LOAM, RARELY FLOODED7176—Rossville silt loam, very rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS177—Shawnee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS177—Shawnee County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A7—Silver Lake, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • 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—66

    66—145

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    —79—
    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

    106

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0880; observed in push tube
    A1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0881
    A2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0882
    A3—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0883
    Bw1—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0884
    Bw2—99 to 145 centimeters (39.0 to 57.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0885
    BC—145 to 191 centimeters (57.1 to 75.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 11 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0886; observed in push tube