IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Knox
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS103013
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS103013
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10697KS103-7281-008K
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Transect Interval - 30.5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS103013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41132
  • 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: 39.2780991
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9490585
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet north and 1980 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39094-C8—Leavenworth, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kacirek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, 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 - Knox
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Peorian Loess formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—119

    —25—

    —94—
    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

    5

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    285

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    140

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; 27 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1329
    BA—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1330
    Bt1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 12 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1331. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32953; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32953
    Bt2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1332. continuous - phpvsfiid 32918; continuous - phpvsfiid 32918
    Bt3—74 to 119 centimeters (29.1 to 46.9 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1333. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32919; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 32919
    C—119 to 157 centimeters (46.9 to 61.8 inches); 80 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; massive; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1334