IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS103002
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS103002
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA106-WallulaKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS103002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40858
  • 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: 39.2273979
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1758728
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 1200 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7951—Gosport silty clay loam, 25 to 45 percent slopes
  • 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: 39094-A8—Bonner Springs, 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 - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gosport
  • 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: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Kanwaka Shale 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: 16
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—43

    43—93

    —43—

    —50—
    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

    11

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    320

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    90

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3674
    A2—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3675
    A3—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3676
    Bw1—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3677
    Bw2—71 to 93 centimeters (28.0 to 36.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3678
    BC—93 to 107 centimeters (36.6 to 42.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3709