IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS005004
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS005004
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA106-WallulaKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS005004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40845
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.4313774
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1268463
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet south and 900 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: Mc—MARTIN SILTY CLAY LOAM, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES7302—Martin silty clay loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS005—Atchison
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS005—Atchison County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-D2—Potter, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wallula
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elmont
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Tecumseh Shale And Oread Limestone formation of the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 35
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—21

    31—146

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    —115—
    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

    12

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    293

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    180

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3690
    A2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3691
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3692. patchy - phpvsfiid 355532; patchy - phpvsfiid 355532
    Bt2—48 to 68 centimeters (18.9 to 26.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented manganese masses in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3693. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 355533; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 355533
    Bt3—68 to 87 centimeters (26.8 to 34.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3694. continuous - phpvsfiid 355534; continuous - phpvsfiid 355534
    Bt4—87 to 105 centimeters (34.3 to 41.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented manganese masses in matrix and 20 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3695. continuous - phpvsfiid 355535; continuous - phpvsfiid 355535