IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005KS103403
  • User Pedon ID: S2005KS103403
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0694
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17627
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 39.1107483
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1301422
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 1100 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A2—Midland, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 403
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oska
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2005
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 36 cm of Depth to lithologic discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: indurated at 133cm
  • Geology: Kereford Limestone member of the Oread Limestone formation in the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/29/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 33
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    133 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    36—133

    —36—

    —97—
    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

    4

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    315

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04003
    A—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04004
    BA—24 to 36 centimeters (9.4 to 14.2 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04005
    2Bt1—36 to 54 centimeters (14.2 to 21.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat indurated 5-?-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 1 percent by volume flat indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04006. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 326271; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 326271
    2Bt2—54 to 83 centimeters (21.3 to 32.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 43 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 5-?-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 1 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04007. continuous - phpvsfiid 326272; continuous - phpvsfiid 326272
    2Bt3—83 to 110 centimeters (32.7 to 43.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 43 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 8 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 75-?-150 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04008. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 326273; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 326273
    2Bt4—110 to 133 centimeters (43.3 to 52.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 12 percent by volume flat very angular indurated 75-?-150 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04009. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 326274; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 326274
    2R—133 to 143 centimeters (52.4 to 56.3 inches); fragments.