IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ortello
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88KS061083
  • User Pedon ID: 88KS061083
  • User Site Association ID: KS061 Geary County Type LocationsKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88KS061083
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40963
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.0016975
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9011459
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2300 ft. east and 300 ft. north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 3.5 miles west and 2 miles south of Junction City, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: We—WELLS-ORTELLO COMPLEX, 1 TO 4 PERCENT SLOPES3936—Wells-Ortello complex, 1 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS061—Geary
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS061—Geary County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-A8—Milford Dam, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ortello
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1988
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian sands derived from mixed-noncalcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    0—38

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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

    3

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    375

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    270

    820

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    181

    11.8

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2445
    A—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2446
    Bw—38 to 86 centimeters (15.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2447
    C—86 to 183 centimeters (33.9 to 72.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS2448