IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eudora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88KS061119
  • User Pedon ID: 88KS061119
  • User Site Association ID: Geary County, EudoraKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 88KS061-9V
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88KS061119
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40965
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 1700 ft. N, 1600 ft. W, SE sec. 20 T11S, R5E.
  • Map Unit: Eu—EUDORA SILT LOAM, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS061—Geary
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS061—Geary County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-A8—Milford Dam, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hamilton, V.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eudora
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/6/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    0

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    329

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    90

    820

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    181

    11.8

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2924
    A2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2925
    AC—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2926
    C1—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2927
    C2—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # KSUSS2928