IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bismarckgrove
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS045002s
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS045002s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS045002s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41126
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.0119438
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2230530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet south and 400 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7036—Eudora-Bismarckgrove silt loams, occasionally flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS045—Douglas
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS045—Douglas County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A2—Midland, 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: 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 - 3/25/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 30.9 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 21.5 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 47.599998 percent of Percent silt in the control section


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/25/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • 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

    0—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

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1264
    A1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1265
    A2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 14 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1266
    A3—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; 6 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 53 percent clay; 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1267
    2C1—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 35 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1268
    2C2—91 to 132 centimeters (35.8 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 13 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1269
    2C3—132 to 140 centimeters (52.0 to 55.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments.