IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS087023
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS087023
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA106-WallulaKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS087023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40855
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.1147232
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2244415
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Vo—VINLAND COMPLEX, 7 TO 15 PERCENT SLOPES7653—Vinland complex, 7 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS087—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS087—Jefferson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A2—Midland, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wallula
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wallula
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 101cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 40
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    101 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—19

    30—101

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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

    17

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    225

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    A—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3775; observed in push tube
    BA—19 to 30 centimeters (7.5 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3776; observed in push tube
    Bw1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3777; observed in push tube
    Bw2—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3778; observed in push tube
    Bw3—79 to 101 centimeters (31.1 to 39.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3779; observed in push tube
    Cr—101 to 111 centimeters (39.8 to 43.7 inches); fragments.