IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elkader
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007KS109022
  • User Pedon ID: S2007KS109022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0193
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19062
  • 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: 38.7571106
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8413086
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15s
  • Range: 32w
  • Section: 14
  • Location Description: 34 meters south and 408 meters west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 1605—Elkader silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS109—Logan
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS109—Logan County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-G7—Elkader, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran, John Warner, Bill Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkader
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous silty slope alluvium derived from chalk
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Niobrara Chalk formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 59
  • 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 Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
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    mollic epipedon

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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

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01234; observed in pit, small
    A2—12 to 21 centimeters (4.7 to 8.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 11 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume well rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-2-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01235; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—21 to 43 centimeters (8.3 to 16.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 19 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume well rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-2-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01236; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—43 to 77 centimeters (16.9 to 30.3 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 30 percent sand; 19 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume well rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-2-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01237; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—77 to 130 centimeters (30.3 to 51.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, moist; loam; 38 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 4 percent by volume well rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-2-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01238; observed in pit, small
    2Bk—130 to 175 centimeters (51.2 to 68.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent fine irregular very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; 7 percent by volume well rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-2-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 07N01239; observed in pit, small