IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscotah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KS149014s
  • User Pedon ID: 96KS149014s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KS149014s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41104
  • 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: 39.2169151
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2875824
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 10 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet south and 2600 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Sampled for KSU lab
  • Map Unit: 7208—Muscotah silty clay loam, very rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS149—Pottawatomie
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS149—Pottawatomie County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-B3—Wamego, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic 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 - Muscotah
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Geology: Newman Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 64
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1138
    A—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; 37 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1139
    Bw—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1140
    Bg1—61 to 119 centimeters (24.0 to 46.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; 48 percent clay; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1141
    Bg2—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1142