IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gosport
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS103108
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS103108
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0844
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18467
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.2999992
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0884705
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 300 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 3 miles south of Easton on 231st St. and 2 miles east on Banaster Road, then .75 of a mile south on 219th St. About 300 feet west through a cattle gate below the trees on the southside.
  • 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-C1—Easton, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans, T. Robertson, C. Remley, L. Miller, R. Still, T. Harrington
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 108
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gosport
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/19/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: King Hill Shale member of the Lecompton Limestone formation in the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/19/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    36—59

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    —23—
    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

    18

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    335

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    270

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 medium roots throughout and 18.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03607; observed in pit, small
    A2—12 to 28 centimeters (4.7 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03608; observed in pit, small
    BA—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03609; observed in pit, small
    2Bw1—36 to 49 centimeters (14.2 to 19.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03610; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—49 to 59 centimeters (19.3 to 23.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 30 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03611; observed in pit, small
    2BC—59 to 75 centimeters (23.2 to 29.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 30 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03612; observed in pit, small
    2C1—75 to 110 centimeters (29.5 to 43.3 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 35 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 50 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03613; observed in pit, small
    2C2—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 35 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 70 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03614; observed in pit, small