IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharpsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KS103504
  • User Pedon ID: 98KS103504
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 98KS103504
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41155
  • 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: 39.2324982
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8746948
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 620 feet north and 2080 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Sc—SHARPSBURG SILTY CLAY LOAM, 4 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39094-B8—Basehor, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kacirek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharpsburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/1998
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/5/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 19
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    38—117

    —25—

    —79—
    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

    10

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    200

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1501
    BA—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; 1 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1502. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32805; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32805
    Bt1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 3 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1503. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32804; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32804
    Bt2—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1504. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32806; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32806
    Bt3—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1505. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32803; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32803
    C1—117 to 150 centimeters (46.1 to 59.1 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; 20 percent clay; massive; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1506
    C2—150 to 191 centimeters (59.1 to 75.2 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; 19 percent clay; massive; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1507