IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wakeen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051012
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1869
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36027
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.9766655
  • Std. Longitude: -99.5386124
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet E and 1700 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.F. Harner, L.D. Zavesky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, carbonatic, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wakeen
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, 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: convex
  • 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 - crop 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
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    12

    26

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14903. 415; few fine and medium roots
    1A12—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; 5.5 roots; 30 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14904. 416; many worm cast granules.; many worm casts concentrations; many roots
    1B2—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable; worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14905. 417; fewer worm casts than A12 horizon; common small fragments of chalk.
    1B3—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14906. 418; common small fragments of chalk.; few fine roots
    1C1—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14907. 419; many platy fragments of chalk mostly less than 5 cm in longest dimension, a few as large as 13 cm; between 64-67 cm, below larger chalk fragment, was channel about 10 cm in diameter filled with brown moist light silty clay loam, sampled; few fine roots
    1C2—79 to 117 centimeters (31.1 to 46.1 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) interior, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior, moist; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14908. 420; bed of subrounded chalk fragments with soil material like that of C1 horizon filling most space between fragments.; few roots
    1Cr—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches);, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior, moist; fragments. Lab sample # 40A14909. 421; thinly bedded chalk, no roots observed.