IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS103048
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS103048
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA106-WallulaKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS103048
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40236
  • 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: 39.2999001
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0880966
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet south and 350 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: South of Easton
  • 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: 39095-C1—Easton, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wallula
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elmont
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: at 119cm
  • Geology: Stull Shale member of the Kanwaka Shale And Lecompton Limestone formation in the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    moderately coherent

    119 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—31

    31—99

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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

    14

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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented ? to 10-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3270
    A2—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented ? to 10-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3271
    Bw1—31 to 43 centimeters (12.2 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 45 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3272. continuous - phpvsfiid 298192; continuous - phpvsfiid 298192
    Bw2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3273. continuous - phpvsfiid 298193; continuous - phpvsfiid 298193
    Bw3—61 to 99 centimeters (24.0 to 39.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3274. continuous - phpvsfiid 298194; continuous - phpvsfiid 298194
    C—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; moderate very fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3275. continuous - phpvsfiid 298200; continuous - phpvsfiid 298200
    Cr—119 to 129 centimeters (46.9 to 50.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2); 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments. continuous - phpvsfiid 298195; continuous - phpvsfiid 298195