IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KS149013s
  • User Pedon ID: 96KS149013s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KS149013s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41103
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 39.2168350
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2904129
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 10 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet south and 1800 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Sampled for KSU Lab
  • Map Unit: 7176—Rossville silt loam, very rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS149—Pottawatomie
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS149—Pottawatomie County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-B3—Wamego, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: percent of Percent clay in the control section and percent of Percent sand in the control section and percent of Percent silt in the control section


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Geology: Newman Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 64
  • 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

    0—145

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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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 7 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1157
    A1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 7 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1158
    A2—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1159
    A3—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 11 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 28 percent clay; 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1160
    A4—99 to 145 centimeters (39.0 to 57.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 34 percent clay; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1161
    C—145 to 185 centimeters (57.1 to 72.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 10 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 27 percent clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; massive; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1162