IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olmitz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KS177174s
  • User Pedon ID: 95KS177174s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KS177174s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41094
  • Print Date: 9/17/2024

    • 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: 39.1142235
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8450546
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 14 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet south and 2000 feet east of the northwest corner
  • 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-loamy, 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 - Olmitz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - 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-loamy colluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/1995 (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—81

    41—180

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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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    283

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; 38 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0953
    A—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; 42 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0954
    Bw1—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) loam; 38 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0955
    Bw2—81 to 135 centimeters (31.9 to 53.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay loam; 25 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0956. continuous - phpvsfiid 24686; continuous - phpvsfiid 24686
    Bw3—135 to 180 centimeters (53.1 to 70.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 43 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 22 percent clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0957