IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Martin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS103106
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS103106
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KS103106
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40827
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 39.3530121
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9998093
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet north and 2100 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39094-D8—Weston, Missouri

    • 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: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Martin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/24/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Unnamed Shale member of the Lawrence formation in the Douglas group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/24/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—27

    27—110

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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

    8

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    261

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3447; observed in push tube
    A—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3448; observed in push tube
    BA—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); 90 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 50 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3449; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 323987; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 323987
    Bt1—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3450; observed in push tube
    Bt2—54 to 82 centimeters (21.3 to 32.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3451; observed in push tube
    Bt3—82 to 104 centimeters (32.3 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3452; observed in push tube
    Bt4—104 to 126 centimeters (40.9 to 49.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3453; observed in push tube
    Bt5—126 to 149 centimeters (49.6 to 58.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3454; observed in push tube
    Bt6—149 to 182 centimeters (58.7 to 71.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3455; observed in push tube