IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wakeen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051006
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1870
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36028
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 38.9752769
  • Std. Longitude: -99.5577774
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet W and 1200 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. M. Allen, R. F. Harner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, carbonatic, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wakeen
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, carbonatic, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    26

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    1Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine platy, and moderate very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14911. 408; few very fine chalk fragments.; common fine roots
    1Ap2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium granular structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14912. 409; common fine roots
    1A13—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 30 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14913. 410; few chalk fragments up to 2 cm in diameter.; many worm casts concentrations; common fine roots
    1B2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium and coarse granular structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent worm casts; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14914. 411; common worm cast granules of pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3) moist; few fragments of chalk up to 5 cm in diameter.; common worm casts concentrations; few fine roots
    1B3—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/4) interior, 2.5Y 6/ (2.5Y 6/), interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14915. 412; few coarse root channels filled with darker colored soil material.; few very fine roots
    1Cr1—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4) interior, 10YR 6/ (10YR 6/), interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; very hard; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14916. Weathered thinly bedded chalk, crushes to silty clay loam texture; brittle.; few very fine roots
    1Cr2—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior; fragments. Lab sample # 40A14917. 414; thinly bedded chalk; no roots observed.