IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bourbonais
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002KS087002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002KS087002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0154
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14805
  • Print Date: 5/4/2025

    • 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: 39.0684433
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5844421
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet south and 2600 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: 1/2 mile south of Perry on the Perry-LeCompton Road. Site is approximately 100 feet in to the crop field on the west side of the road.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS087—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS087—Jefferson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A5—Grantville, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Evans, Bill Wehmueller, Chad Remley, Robert Plinsky, Cleveland Watts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bourbonais
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2002
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 80 cm of Depth to sand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Geology: Holliday Terrace Complex formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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—32

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00774; observed in trench
    Ap2—14 to 32 centimeters (5.5 to 12.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00775; observed in trench
    C1—32 to 50 centimeters (12.6 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00776; observed in trench
    C2—50 to 80 centimeters (19.7 to 31.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00777; observed in trench
    2C3—80 to 100 centimeters (31.5 to 39.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and brown (10YR 5/3) stratified stratified loamy sand to silt loam; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00778; observed in trench
    2C4—100 to 146 centimeters (39.4 to 57.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and brown (10YR 5/3) stratified stratified sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00779; observed in trench
    2C5—146 to 206 centimeters (57.5 to 81.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) stratified stratified fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 03N00780; observed in trench