IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basehor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103054
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103054
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40211
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 39.0757217
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0364990
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet north and 300 feet east of the southwest corner
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basehor
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, superactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 0 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/15/2004
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 41cm
  • Geology: Tonganoxie Sandstone member of the Stranger formation in the Douglas group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/15/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • 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

    41 -

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

    cambic horizon

    14—41

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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

    5

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    180

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3113
    Bw—14 to 41 centimeters (5.5 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3114
    Cr—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); fragments.