IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elmont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103098
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103098
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10604KS103-7651-008
  • Transect Stop Number - 8
  • Transect Interval - 45.7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103098
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40216
  • 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: 39.1235542
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0265579
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 1
  • 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: Fine-silty over clayey, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elmont
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty over clayey, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Stranger formation of the Douglas group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/29/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 34
  • 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

    albic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—50

    50—70

    70—120

    —50—

    —20—

    —50—
    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 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent fine distinct irregular dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2983; observed in push tube
    A2—17 to 29 centimeters (6.7 to 11.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent fine distinct irregular dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2984
    A3—29 to 50 centimeters (11.4 to 19.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent fine distinct irregular dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2985
    Et—50 to 70 centimeters (19.7 to 27.6 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent fine distinct irregular dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2986
    2Bg1—70 to 89 centimeters (27.6 to 35.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent fine distinct irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2987
    2Bg2—89 to 120 centimeters (35.0 to 47.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2988