IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eudora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KS177002s
  • User Pedon ID: 95KS177002s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KS177002s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41090
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 39.1600037
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0136261
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 13 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 1000 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Re—READING SILTY CLAY LOAM, 0 TO 2 PERCENT SLOPES, 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: 39096-B1—Saint Marys, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eudora
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 15.5 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 25.799999 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 58.700001 percent of Percent silt in the control section and 13.7 percent of A horizon clay content


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-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: 2/22/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 7
  • 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—58

    58—122

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    —64—
    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

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 28 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0887
    A—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 26 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0888. split sample
    Bw1—58 to 99 centimeters (22.8 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 27 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0889. split sample
    Bw2—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0890
    A—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0891
    2Bw3—150 to 178 centimeters (59.1 to 70.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments.