IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS005004L
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS005004L
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS005004L
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41114
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 7 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS005—Atchison
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS005—Atchison County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kacirek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armster
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 38 cm of Loess cap thickness


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey pedisediment derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 32
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—112

    —20—

    —92—
    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

    6

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    270

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1339
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent distinct clay films throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1340. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32778; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32778
    2Bt2—38 to 86 centimeters (15.0 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed noncalcareous fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1341. continuous - phpvsfiid 32779; continuous - phpvsfiid 32779
    2Bt3—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent distinct clay films throughout; 2 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed noncalcareous fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1342. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32886; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32886