IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olmitz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS005603
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS005603
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KS005603
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40810
  • 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: 39.5041656
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3000031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 S.
  • Range: 19 E.
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner
  • Map Unit: Ss—SHELBY-STEINAUER LOAMS, 12 TO 25 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS005—Atchison
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS005—Atchison County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-E3—Lancaster, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Olmitz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    secondary carbonates

    0—101

    125—

    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    5

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    215

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    A1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3650; observed in push tube
    A2—14 to 38 centimeters (5.5 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior clay loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3651; observed in push tube
    A3—38 to 72 centimeters (15.0 to 28.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3652; observed in push tube
    BA—72 to 101 centimeters (28.3 to 39.8 inches); 80 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3653; observed in push tube
    Bw1—101 to 125 centimeters (39.8 to 49.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3654; observed in push tube
    Bw2—125 to 150 centimeters (49.2 to 59.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3655; observed in push tube
    Bk—150 to 189 centimeters (59.1 to 74.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 8 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 8 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented clay depletions in matrix surrounding redox concentrations and 20 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 10 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, carbonate masses throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3656; observed in push tube