IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bismarckgrove
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KS103240
  • User Pedon ID: 96KS103240
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KS103240
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41100
  • 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: 39.9708328
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0513916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 270 feet north and 1400 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: sampled for ksu
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38095-H1—Eudora, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bismarckgrove
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 38.200001 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 3.2 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 58.599998 percent of Percent silt in the control section and 17.799999 percent of A horizon clay content


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/21/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—119

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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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 25 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1246; observed in push tube
    A1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 22 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1247
    A2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1248
    Bw1—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1249
    2Bw2—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; 0 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 51 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1250
    2Bw3—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; 0 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 49 percent clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium faint mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1251
    3C—119 to 165 centimeters (46.9 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silt; 12 percent sand; 82 percent silt; 6 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1252