IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wells
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979KS143001
  • User Pedon ID: 79KS143001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0320
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47053
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 39.1055565
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8291702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 15 meters S and 40 meters W of NE corner
  • Location Description: One mile south and six miles west of Minneapolis.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS143—Ottawa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. E. Brown and C. R. Berdanier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wells
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wells
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Udic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1979 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    30—84

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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

    6

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    45

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    1A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01659. common very fine and fine roots
    1B1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01660. common very fine and fine roots
    1B21t—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01661. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 214212; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 214212
    1B22t—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01662. Few medium and coarse tree roots.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 214213; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 214213
    1B23t—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01663. Few medium and coarse tree roots.; few very fine roots
    1B3—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01664
    1C1—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); 50 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior and 50 percent pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and 50 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01665
    2C2—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) interior, 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and 50 percent gray (10YR 6/1) interior, moist; silty clay; massive; hard, firm; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01666. few fine lime concretions concentrations
    2Cr—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) interior weathered bedrock; fragments. Shale.