IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS103007
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS103007
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA106-WallulaKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS103007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40859
  • 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: 39.3376732
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0805817
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: southwest 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: 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: not classified to current taxon name
  • 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 - 5/18/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Menoken Surface formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9
  • 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

    175 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—26

    26—101

    —26—

    —75—
    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

    16

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    322

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    90

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3783
    A2—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 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 # KSUSS3784
    Bw1—26 to 44 centimeters (10.2 to 17.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3785
    Bw2—44 to 68 centimeters (17.3 to 26.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3786
    Bw3—68 to 86 centimeters (26.8 to 33.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3787
    Bw4—86 to 101 centimeters (33.9 to 39.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3788
    BC—101 to 135 centimeters (39.8 to 53.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3789
    C1—135 to 154 centimeters (53.1 to 60.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3790
    C2—154 to 175 centimeters (60.6 to 68.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3791
    Cr—175 to 185 centimeters (68.9 to 72.8 inches); fragments.