IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elmont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KS091110L
  • User Pedon ID: 96KS091110L
  • User Site Association ID: 2409Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10696KS091-7535-011
  • Transect Stop Number - 10
  • Transect Interval - 30.5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KS091110L
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41097
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.9592628
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0282669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: southeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS091—Johnson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS091—Johnson County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elmont
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent at 99cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/1996 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    30—99

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    —69—
    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

    6

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    274

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1107
    A—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1108
    Bt1—30 to 74 centimeters (11.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 30 percent distinct clay films throughout; iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine spherical throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1109. continuous - phpvsfiid 23465; continuous - phpvsfiid 23465
    Bt2—64 to 99 centimeters (25.2 to 39.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1110. continuous - phpvsfiid 23466; continuous - phpvsfiid 23466
    Cr—99 to 109 centimeters (39.0 to 42.9 inches); fragments.