IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wamego
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990KS013007
  • User Pedon ID: 90KS013007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0635
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62561
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024
  • 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: 39.6747208
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5086136
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet S and 150 feet W of NE corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS013—Brown
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wamego
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 58 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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—94

    58—130

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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

    9

    45

    89

    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; strong medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03771. few medium roots throughout; many fine roots throughout
    Ap2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03772. few medium roots throughout; many fine roots throughout
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, black stains on faces of peds and 2 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03773. few glacial pebbles in top of Bt1 up to three inch size; shale chips (10YR 6/6); very few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; many fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 225332; patchy - phpvsfiid 225332
    Bt2—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03774. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; common fine prominent 10YR56 mottles; few fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225333; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225333
    BC—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 70 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate thin platy structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent distinct , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03775. very few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; few fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 225334; patchy - phpvsfiid 225334
    Cr1—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 50 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2); moderate thin platy structure; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 2 percent 2.5Y 4/0 (2.5Y 4/0), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03776. partially weathered clayey shales; very few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few fine roots in cracks
    Cr2—84 to 150 centimeters (33.1 to 59.1 inches); 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and 70 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3); 2.5Y 4/0 (2.5Y 4/0), moist, clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 90P03777. partially weathered clayey shales