IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kennebec
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10KS131001
  • User Pedon ID: S10KS131001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0124
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24974
  • 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: 39.8064167
  • Std. Longitude: -96.0513889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3 S
  • Range: 12 E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: northwest corner
  • Location Description: Seneca
  • Map Unit: 7050—Kennebec silt loam, occasionally flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS131—Nemaha
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kohake
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kennebec
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/2009
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap3—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small