IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscotah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS149004s
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS149004s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS149004s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41138
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 39.2050819
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1016922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 12 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet north and 2580 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: SAMPLED FOR KSU LAB
  • 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-B1—Saint Marys, 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: research site
  • 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 - 4/3/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 56.700001 percent of Percent clay in the control section and percent of Percent sand in the control section and percent of Percent silt in the control section


    • 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: 4/3/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 67
  • 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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    106

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; 7 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1301
    A—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; 4 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 51 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1302
    Bw—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; 3 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 54 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1303
    Bg1—48 to 119 centimeters (18.9 to 46.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay; 3 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 58 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1304
    Bg2—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; 2 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 55 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1305