IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tuttle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS161002
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS161002
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 01KS161002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40161
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.2792282
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6437759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 7 miles north and 2 miles west of Manhattan, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Cs—CLIME-SOGN COMPLEX, 5 TO 20 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS161—Riley
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS161—Riley County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-C6—Olsburg SW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal over fragmental, mixed, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuttle
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over fragmental, mixed, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/15/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly creep deposits derived from limestone and shale over gravelly residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered shale, calcareous at 100cm
  • Geology: Blue Rapids Sh. And Crouse Ls. formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/15/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 19
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    55 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—33

    48—100

    100—

    —33—

    —52—

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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

    10

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    354

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    135

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    A1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 15 percent by volume subangular 15-35-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2130; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A2—14 to 33 centimeters (5.5 to 13.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular 15-35-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2131; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BA—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat angular 75-150-300 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular 15-50-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2132; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt—48 to 100 centimeters (18.9 to 39.4 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; extremely flaggy silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 15-50-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume flat angular 75-150-500 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2133; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Cr—100 to 120 centimeters (39.4 to 47.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry