IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wells
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88KS061337
  • User Pedon ID: 88KS061337
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88KS061337
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40980
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.0075302
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9403152
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 950 ft. east and 2400 ft. north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 2 miles south and 5.5 miles west of Junction City, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Wf—WELLS-ORTELLO COMPLEX, 4 TO 8 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wells
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/30/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—51

    51—130

    —51—

    —79—
    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

    5

    —

    —

    357

    —

    210

    820

    —

    181

    11.8

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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2867. Many fine roots.
    BA—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2868. Many fine roots.
    Bt1—51 to 94 centimeters (20.1 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2869. Com. fine. Some dark stains, ped faces and crack faces.; patchy - phpvsfiid 23023; patchy - phpvsfiid 23023
    Bt2—94 to 130 centimeters (37.0 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2870
    BC—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and light brown (7.5YR 6/4), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS2871. Few black conc.