IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Falleaf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103393
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103393
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103393
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40217
  • 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: 38.9997940
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9888916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: SAMPLED FOR LAB
  • Map Unit: Kw—KONAWA FINE SANDY LOAM, 8 TO 20 PERCENT SLOPES
  • 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: 38094-H8—De Soto, 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 - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tonganoxie
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    61—111

    —15—

    —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

    10

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    270

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3081; observed in push tube
    C1—15 to 32 centimeters (5.9 to 12.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3082
    C2—32 to 61 centimeters (12.6 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3083
    2Bt1—61 to 85 centimeters (24.0 to 33.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay bridges on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct irregular masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3084. continuous - phpvsfiid 273371; continuous - phpvsfiid 273371
    2Bt2—85 to 111 centimeters (33.5 to 43.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent distinct clay bridges on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3085. continuous - phpvsfiid 273372; continuous - phpvsfiid 273372