IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wagstaff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KS121012
  • User Pedon ID: 94KS121012
  • 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 # - 94KS121012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41048
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Township: 15 S
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet south and 1750 feet west of the northeast corner
  • 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 - 46 to 94 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: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: indurated at 94cm
  • 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: 25
  • 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

    94 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—48

    46—94

    —48—

    —48—

    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

    2

    90

    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0694
    BA—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0695
    Bt1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0696. continuous - phpvsfiid 25620; continuous - phpvsfiid 25620
    Bt2—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0697. continuous - phpvsfiid 25621; continuous - phpvsfiid 25621
    R—94 to 104 centimeters (37.0 to 40.9 inches); fragments.