IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS103600
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS103600
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18649
  • 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: 39.0511398
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1858368
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet E & 2550 feet N of the southwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-E3—Lancaster, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 600
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oska
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2006
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 40
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    lithic contact

    0—23

    23—132

    36—132

    132—

    —23—

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    4

    —

    —

    318

    —

    345

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    2147

    Ku-Nesa

    SCAN
    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silty clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04409; observed in pit, small
    AB—9 to 27 centimeters (3.5 to 10.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04410; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—27 to 36 centimeters (10.6 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04411; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 342190; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 342190
    Bt2—36 to 52 centimeters (14.2 to 20.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04412; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 342191; continuous - phpvsfiid 342191
    Bt3—52 to 86 centimeters (20.5 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior silty clay; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 2 percent fine distinct dendritic noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings throughout and 8 percent fine prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04413; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 342192; continuous - phpvsfiid 342192
    Bt4—86 to 132 centimeters (33.9 to 52.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior silty clay; 40 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2 percent distinct organoargillans on all faces of peds and 3 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 8 percent fine prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04414; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 342193; continuous - phpvsfiid 342194; continuous - phpvsfiid 342195; continuous - phpvsfiid 342193; continuous - phpvsfiid 342194; continuous - phpvsfiid 342195
    R—132 centimeters (52.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small