IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kennebec
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KS013001s
  • User Pedon ID: 99KS013001s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KS013001s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41169
  • Print Date: 4/28/2024

    • 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: 39.8333321
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5500031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 S
  • Range: 17 E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: KSU LAB SAMPLE
  • Map Unit: 7050—Kennebec silt loam, occasionally flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS013—Brown
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS013—Brown County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-G5—Hiawatha, 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 - Kennebec
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/1999 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—127

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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

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1838
    A2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1839
    A3—30 to 79 centimeters (11.8 to 31.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1840
    A4—79 to 127 centimeters (31.1 to 50.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1841