IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Knox
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KS103505L
  • User Pedon ID: 98KS103505L
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 98KS103505L
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41156
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.2354164
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8693085
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1290 feet north and 1280 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: legal survey is not clear in this area.
  • 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, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Knox
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1998
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Peorian Loess formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1998 (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

    argillic horizon

    43—104

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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); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1513
    BA—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1514
    Bt1—43 to 79 centimeters (16.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; 4 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1515
    Bt2—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 4 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1516
    C—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 23 percent clay; massive; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1517