IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wells
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02KS029005
  • User Pedon ID: 02KS029005
  • User Site Association ID: MO5 Soil Workshop PedonsKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 02KS029005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40174
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.3637695
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5973587
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 of NW1/4 of NE1/4
  • Location Description: Located 3 and 1/2 miles east of the intersection of U.S. Highways 24 and 81.
  • Map Unit: Lh—LANCASTER-HEDVILLE COMPLEX, 5 TO 30 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS029—Cloud
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS029—Cloud County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-C5—Lamar, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.C. Remley, W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wells
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 189 cm of Depth to discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy pedisediment derived from mixed over loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, clayey at 229cm
  • Geology: Dakota Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—49

    34—132

    229—

    —49—

    —98—

    —-
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    11/14/2002

    50

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    11
    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

    11.5

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    —

    461

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    270

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2531; observed in trench
    A2—18 to 34 centimeters (7.1 to 13.4 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2532; observed in trench
    Bt1—34 to 49 centimeters (13.4 to 19.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2533; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 236362; patchy - phpvsfiid 236362
    Bt2—49 to 73 centimeters (19.3 to 28.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; loam; 28 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky parts to strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 6 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2534; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 236364; patchy - phpvsfiid 236364
    Bt3—73 to 106 centimeters (28.7 to 41.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed and brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 10 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2535; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 236365; patchy - phpvsfiid 236365
    Bt4—106 to 132 centimeters (41.7 to 52.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed and brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; 21 percent sand; 29 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 10 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2536; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 236363; patchy - phpvsfiid 236363
    BC—132 to 164 centimeters (52.0 to 64.6 inches);, 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face, moist; clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-30-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2537; observed in trench
    C1—164 to 189 centimeters (64.6 to 74.4 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, moist; paragravelly loam; massive; firm; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-128-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-128-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2538; observed in trench
    2C2—189 to 229 centimeters (74.4 to 90.2 inches); variegated, 80 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior, moist; paragravelly loam; massive; firm; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 30 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-128-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2539; observed in trench
    2Cr—229 to 243 centimeters (90.2 to 95.7 inches);, gray (7.5YR 6/1) exterior, moist; bedrock; massive; very slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in trench