IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tuttle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS161047
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS161047
  • User Site Association ID: 96KS161-Colbert Hills Golf Course projectKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS161047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41148
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.2160568
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6272507
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NE1/4
  • Map Unit: Bf—BENFIELD-FLORENCE COMPLEX, 5 TO 20 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS161—Riley
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS161—Riley County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-B6—Keats, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Udorthentic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuttle
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Udorthentic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1997
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 cm of Depth to free lime and 120 cm of Depth to shale


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • 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

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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

    22

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    375

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    180

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; strong fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR0549
    A2—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; very gravelly silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots around fragments; 35 percent by volume subangular 20-48-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR0550
    2Bw1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; 1.0 fine roots around fragments; 12 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUR0551
    2Bw2—58 to 110 centimeters (22.8 to 43.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; extremely cobbly silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots around fragments; 85 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR0552. About 30% of this horizon is highly weathered limestone and could be considered Cr. This material has a matrix color of 2.5Y 6/3 and 2.5Y 6/4 and has few, fine, distinct 10YR 5/6 mottles. This material was sampled separately.
    3BC—110 to 120 centimeters (43.3 to 47.2 inches);, 60 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior and 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct carbonate coats on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume well rounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUR0554. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 21569; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 21569
    3Cr—120 to 160 centimeters (47.2 to 63.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # KSUR0555