IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KS087002s
  • User Pedon ID: 95KS087002s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KS087002s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41074
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.0802765
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5477753
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 17 E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet north and 2600 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: KSU LAB SAMPLE
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS087—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS087—Jefferson County, 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 - 9/6/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: percent of Percent clay in the control section and percent of Percent sand in the control section and percent of Percent silt in the control section


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36
  • 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—99

    99—132

    —99—

    —33—
    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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    265

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 14 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0892
    A1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 15 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0893
    A2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 12 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0894
    A3—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 11 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0895
    Bw—99 to 132 centimeters (39.0 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 19 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0896
    BC—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 30 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0897