IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wagstaff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KS121010
  • User Pedon ID: 94KS121010
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Wagstaff Catoosa projectKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KS121010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41046
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 15 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 280 feet north and 920 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: About 6 miles west and 4 miles north of Hillsdale, Kansas.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS121—Miami
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS121—Miami County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans, R. Plinsky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wagstaff
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 36 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: indurated at 84cm
  • Geology: Spring Hill Limestone member of the Plattsburg Limestone formation in the Lansing group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/23/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    84 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—46

    36—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

    3

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    90

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0685
    A2—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0686
    Bt1—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silty clay; 43 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0687. continuous - phpvsfiid 25605; continuous - phpvsfiid 25605
    Bt2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0688. continuous - phpvsfiid 25606; continuous - phpvsfiid 25606
    Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; 58 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0689. continuous - phpvsfiid 25607; continuous - phpvsfiid 25607
    R—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); fragments.