IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chase
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS103044
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS103044
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS103044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40232
  • 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: 39.3169327
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1188278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet south and 1600 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 4350—Chase silty clay loam, rarely flooded
  • 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-C1—Easton, Kansas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chase
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 62 to 112 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2005
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods
  • Geology: Newman Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/29/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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—85

    62—163

    —85—

    —101—

    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

    2

    90

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3147
    A—15 to 37 centimeters (5.9 to 14.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3148
    BA—37 to 62 centimeters (14.6 to 24.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3149
    Bt1—62 to 85 centimeters (24.4 to 33.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3150
    Bt2—85 to 104 centimeters (33.5 to 40.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3151
    Bt3—104 to 136 centimeters (40.9 to 53.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3152
    Bt4—136 to 163 centimeters (53.5 to 64.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3153
    BC—163 to 173 centimeters (64.2 to 68.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.