IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eudora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KS197192
  • User Pedon ID: 96KS197192
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KS197192
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41112
  • 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: 39.1083336
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0013885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 13 E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet north and 50 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: KSU LAB SAMPLE
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS197—Wabaunsee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-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 - Eudora
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 5.6999998 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 49.400002 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 45 percent of Percent silt in the control section


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

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    0—30

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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); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1117
    A—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1118
    AC—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 7 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1119
    C1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; 6 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1120
    C2—64 to 112 centimeters (25.2 to 44.1 inches); 97 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 3 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1121
    C3—112 to 147 centimeters (44.1 to 57.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1122
    C4—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); 95 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and 5 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1123