IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bismarckgrove
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002KS087003
  • User Pedon ID: S2002KS087003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0155
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14806
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.0669479
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3824692
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet south and 2600 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: 1 mile south on Barton Road, then 1/2 mile west on 17th road, then 1/2 south on Detlor Road and 3/4 mile west on 13th road. Site is approximately 1200 feet north in the crop field on the east 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-A4—Perry, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Evans, Bill Wehmueller, Chad Remley, Robert Plinsky, Cleveland Watts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bismarckgrove
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, 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


    • 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: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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: 42
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—52

    26—131

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    —105—
    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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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00781; observed in trench
    Ap2—15 to 26 centimeters (5.9 to 10.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00782; observed in trench
    Bw1—26 to 52 centimeters (10.2 to 20.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00783; observed in trench
    Bw2—52 to 79 centimeters (20.5 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 25 percent distinct organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00784; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 241850; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 241850
    Bw3—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00785; observed in trench
    BC—99 to 131 centimeters (39.0 to 51.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00786; observed in trench
    C1—131 to 166 centimeters (51.6 to 65.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 10 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 15 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00787; observed in trench
    C2—166 to 193 centimeters (65.4 to 76.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N00788; observed in trench
    C3—193 to 240 centimeters (76.0 to 94.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 03N00789; observed in trench