IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983KS045002
  • User Pedon ID: 83KS045002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0733
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53520
  • 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: 38.8375015
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2750015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 366 meters E and 320 meters S of the NW corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS045—Douglas
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K Sallee and R E Mayhugh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oska
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oska
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Argiudoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—96

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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

    3

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    333

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    225

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    1A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium granular structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03632. common fine roots throughout
    1BA—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03633. common fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent pressure faces on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03634. few pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots throughout
    1Bt2—48 to 67 centimeters (18.9 to 26.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent pressure faces on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03635. few pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots throughout
    1Bt3—67 to 87 centimeters (26.4 to 34.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds and 37 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; 11 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03636. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common organic coats surface features on faces of peds; common pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots throughout
    1BCt—87 to 96 centimeters (34.3 to 37.8 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 70 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 83P03637. few fine roots throughout
    1R—96 to 102 centimeters (37.8 to 40.2 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled.