IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bismarckgrove
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KS177100s
  • User Pedon ID: 96KS177100s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KS177100s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41110
  • 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: 39.0549736
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5271912
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 17 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet south and 2000 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Sampled for KSU LAB
  • Map Unit: Mr—MUIR SILT LOAM, RARELY FLOODED7107—Bismarckgrove-Kimo complex, 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: 39095-A5—Grantville, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Kichler
  • 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: full pedon description
  • 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 - 6/21/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 27.700001 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 7.8000002 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 64.599998 percent of Percent silt in the control section and 27.299999 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: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Geology: Holliday Terrace Complex formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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—61

    61—74

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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

    1

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    262

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1150
    A1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 39 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1151
    A2—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 38 percent clay; 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1152
    Bw—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 28 percent clay; 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1153
    BC—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 17 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 14 percent clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1154
    2C1—112 to 135 centimeters (44.1 to 53.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 20 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 11 percent clay; 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1155
    2C2—135 to 170 centimeters (53.1 to 66.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sandy loam; 50 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1156