IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grundy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103700
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103700
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103700
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40226
  • 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: 39.0558319
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0894470
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet south and 1000 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: Aa—KENNEBEC SILT LOAM, CHANNELED
  • 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: T. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grundy
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Peorian Loess member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/2004 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—118

    —25—

    —93—
    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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3175; observed in push tube
    A2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3176; observed in push tube
    Btg1—25 to 68 centimeters (9.8 to 26.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent medium faint irregular moderately coherent cemented manganese masses in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3177; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 276008; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 276008
    Btg2—68 to 75 centimeters (26.8 to 29.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented manganese masses in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3178; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 276013; continuous - phpvsfiid 276013
    Btg3—75 to 115 centimeters (29.5 to 45.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented manganese masses in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3179; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 276014; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 276014
    Btg4—115 to 118 centimeters (45.3 to 46.5 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3180; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 276015; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 276015