IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS103105
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS103105
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0843
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18466
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.1639709
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9806366
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet north and 1400 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Mrs. Schellers. About 2 miles west of Basehor on Hwy 36, then 1 mile north on 175th St, then .2 of a mile east on Donahoo Rd. Go .75 of a mile north on 174th St Site is several hundred feet in the field to the west
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39094-B8—Basehor, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans, C. Remley, L. Gray, D. Kacirek, C. Sorenson, R. Still, T. Harrington
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 105
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armster
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 22 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 39 cm of Loess cap thickness


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey pedisediment
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 28
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—22

    22—130

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    —108—
    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

    10

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    278

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03599; observed in pit, small
    A—10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03600; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—22 to 39 centimeters (8.7 to 15.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 25.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume subrounded 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03601; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 393412; continuous - phpvsfiid 393412
    2Bt2—39 to 66 centimeters (15.4 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03602; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 393413; continuous - phpvsfiid 393413
    2Bt3—66 to 104 centimeters (26.0 to 40.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03603; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 393414; continuous - phpvsfiid 393414
    2Bt4—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay; 42 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03604; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 393415; continuous - phpvsfiid 393415
    2C1—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; - 20 - percent of the total horizon; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03605; observed in pit, small
    2C2—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; - 9 - percent of the total horizon. Lab sample # 06N03606; observed in pit, small