IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olmitz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS005506
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS005506
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS005506
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40852
  • 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: 39.4548607
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3658066
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S.
  • Range: 18 E.
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 150' E and 2050' S of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: Kg—KENNEBEC-COLO SILT LOAMS, 0 TO 2 PERCENT SLOPES, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED7052—Kennebec-Colo silt loams, occasionally flooded
  • 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-D3—Nortonville, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Olmitz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 28
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    ochric epipedon

    0—103

    28—50

    50—70

    0—103—

    —23—

    —20—
    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

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    325

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    325

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3721; observed in push tube
    A1—12 to 28 centimeters (4.7 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior clay loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3722; observed in push tube
    A2—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3723; observed in push tube
    A3—36 to 50 centimeters (14.2 to 19.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 12 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3724; observed in push tube
    Bw—50 to 70 centimeters (19.7 to 27.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior clay loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3725; observed in push tube
    C—70 to 103 centimeters (27.6 to 40.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3726; observed in push tube