IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscotah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS043001l
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS043001l
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS043001L
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41121
  • 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: 39.7869987
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2176132
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1150 feet north and 2200 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS043—Doniphan
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS043—Doniphan County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-G2—Sparks, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kacirek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscotah
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/4/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • 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—137

    89—137

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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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    273

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    300

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1236
    A—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1237
    Bw1—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1238
    Bw2—89 to 140 centimeters (35.0 to 55.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silty clay; 45 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1239