IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basehor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS103103
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS103103
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0842
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18465
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 39.0425835
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0237503
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south and 1100 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: About .75 mile north of Linwood ON 198th St. then .25 mile west on Loring Rd, then 1 mile north on 200th St. One mile east on Canrell Rd and 1 mile north on 190th St. Then .25 mile west on Stillwell Rd. About 500 feet down the hill in the CRP field and far enough above the pond.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A1—Tonganoxie, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans, C. Remley, L. Miller, R. Still, T. Harrington
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, superactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 103
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basehor
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, superactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 0 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 43 % of Coarse fragments in the C horizon


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent at 44cm
  • Geology: Tonganoxie Sandstone member of the Stranger formation in the Douglas group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/17/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 48
  • 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, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    44 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—24

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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

    8

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    266

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    180

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) very fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 20.0 very fine roots throughout and 20.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03596; observed in pit, small
    Bw—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very fine sandy loam; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03597; observed in pit, small
    C—24 to 44 centimeters (9.4 to 17.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 20 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03598; observed in pit, small
    Cr—44 to 54 centimeters (17.3 to 21.3 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small