IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Welda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS103104
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS103104
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KS103104
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40826
  • 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: 39.0089836
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0044250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet south and 550 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: About 1.5 MILES EAST ON HIGHWAY 32 FROM LINWOOD. THEN .5 MILE SOUTH ON HWY 26 AND TURN LEFT INTO THE TALL OAKS CONFERENCE CENTER. FOLLOW THE ROAD AROUND TILL YOU REACH INSPIRATION POINT. PARK AND WALK ABOUT HALF WAY DOWN THE ROAD AND LOOK FOR A TRAIL ON YOUR LEFT. IT IS IN THAT AREA.
  • 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-A1—Tonganoxie, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans, C. Remley, L. Gray, D. Kacirek, C. Sorenson, R. Still, T. Harrington, A. Zung
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Welda
  • PSC - 35 to 85 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armster
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 92 cm of Loess cap thickness


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey pedisediment
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—7

    7—25

    35—164

    —7—

    —18—

    —129—
    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

    3

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    260

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    180

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 30.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3438; observed in pit, small
    E—7 to 25 centimeters (2.8 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 30.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3439; observed in pit, small
    EB—25 to 35 centimeters (9.8 to 13.8 inches); 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 25.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3440; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—35 to 54 centimeters (13.8 to 21.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along root channels and 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3441; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 323845; continuous - phpvsfiid 323846; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 323845; continuous - phpvsfiid 323846
    Bt2—54 to 72 centimeters (21.3 to 28.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3442; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 323847; continuous - phpvsfiid 323847
    Bt3—72 to 92 centimeters (28.3 to 36.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3443; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 323848; continuous - phpvsfiid 323848
    2Bt4—92 to 120 centimeters (36.2 to 47.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3444; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 323849; continuous - phpvsfiid 323849
    2Bt5—120 to 144 centimeters (47.2 to 56.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3445; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 323850; continuous - phpvsfiid 323850
    2Bt6—144 to 164 centimeters (56.7 to 64.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3446; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 323851; continuous - phpvsfiid 323851