IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarcoxie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS103896
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS103896
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS103896
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40246
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 39.2263947
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0396423
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet south and 2350 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 7555—Sarcoxie silty clay loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • 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 - Sarcoxie
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 27 to 77 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/2/2005
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 64 cm of Depth to 2Bt


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over clayey drift
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/2/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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—37

    27—150

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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
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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3302
    A2—15 to 27 centimeters (5.9 to 10.6 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3303
    Bt1—27 to 37 centimeters (10.6 to 14.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3304. continuous - phpvsfiid 304334; continuous - phpvsfiid 304334
    Bt2—37 to 50 centimeters (14.6 to 19.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3305. continuous - phpvsfiid 304335; continuous - phpvsfiid 304335
    Bt3—50 to 64 centimeters (19.7 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3306. continuous - phpvsfiid 304336; continuous - phpvsfiid 304336
    2Bt4—64 to 75 centimeters (25.2 to 29.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3307. continuous - phpvsfiid 304337; continuous - phpvsfiid 304337
    2Bt5—75 to 104 centimeters (29.5 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3308. continuous - phpvsfiid 304338; continuous - phpvsfiid 304338
    2Bt6—104 to 150 centimeters (40.9 to 59.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3309. continuous - phpvsfiid 304339; continuous - phpvsfiid 304339