IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olmitz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS005001
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS005001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10606KS005-7586-001
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 9.1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0949
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18122
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.4236694
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2695111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S
  • Range: 19 E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet north and 1000 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Gu—GRUNDY SILTY CLAY LOAM, 2 TO 6 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS005—Atchison
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS005—Atchison County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-D3—Nortonville, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Olmitz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2006
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 34
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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—65

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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

    3

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04236; observed in push tube
    A—13 to 34 centimeters (5.1 to 13.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt1—34 to 53 centimeters (13.4 to 20.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt2—53 to 62 centimeters (20.9 to 24.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 2 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules on surfaces along root channels and 3 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 3 percent fine distinct clay depletions throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt3—62 to 72 centimeters (24.4 to 28.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 2 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent fine distinct strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    C—72 to 103 centimeters (28.3 to 40.6 inches); fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in push tube