IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Falleaf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KS177016
  • User Pedon ID: 00KS177016
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10600KS177-7270-002
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KS177016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40150
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.1166649
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8499985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 14 E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: southeast corner
  • Location Description: sampled.
  • Map Unit: Sp—MORRILL FINE SANDY LOAM, 3 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS177—Shawnee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS177—Shawnee County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A7—Silver Lake, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, mixed, mesic Arenic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Falleaf
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tonganoxie
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy glaciofluvial deposits and/or sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Menoken Surface formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/2000 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—47

    98—151

    —47—

    —53—
    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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    90

    36

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    180

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    A1—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2025; observed in push tube
    A2—21 to 47 centimeters (8.3 to 18.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2026
    A3—47 to 76 centimeters (18.5 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2027
    AC—76 to 98 centimeters (29.9 to 38.6 inches); loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2028
    2Bt1—98 to 110 centimeters (38.6 to 43.3 inches); sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; rapid permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2029
    2Bt2—110 to 151 centimeters (43.3 to 59.4 inches); sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2030
    2BC—151 to 182 centimeters (59.4 to 71.7 inches); sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2031