IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Welda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103057
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103057
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40214
  • 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: 39.0000000
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0000000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: Wd—WELDA SILT LOAM, 9 TO 15 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Welda
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 42 to 92 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—16

    16—28

    42—79

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    —12—

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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
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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3754
    E—16 to 28 centimeters (6.3 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3755
    Bt—28 to 42 centimeters (11.0 to 16.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3756. continuous - phpvsfiid 367340; patchy - phpvsfiid 367341; continuous - phpvsfiid 367340; patchy - phpvsfiid 367341
    Bt1—42 to 66 centimeters (16.5 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent distinct silt coats on top faces of peds and 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3757. patchy - phpvsfiid 367343; continuous - phpvsfiid 367342; patchy - phpvsfiid 367343; continuous - phpvsfiid 367342
    Bt2—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3758. continuous - phpvsfiid 367344; continuous - phpvsfiid 367344