IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wymore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KS149002
  • User Pedon ID: 99KS149002
  • User Site Association ID: 99KS161-KSU 1999 land judging contestKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KS149002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41175
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 39.4314270
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5886765
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: se1/4 of the ne 1/4
  • Map Unit: 7681—Wymore silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS149—Pottawatomie
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS149—Pottawatomie County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-D5—Olsburg, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller, M.D. Ransom, J.C. Remley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wymore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 29 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1999
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 48 cm of Depth to free lime and 112 Depth to discontinuity and 112 Depth to paleosol


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess derived from mixed over silty and clayey residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 200cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 25
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    200 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—48

    29—200

    200—210

    —48—

    —171—

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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

    2

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    433

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    230

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    Ap1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; firm; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1781
    Ap2—9 to 29 centimeters (3.5 to 11.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1782
    Bt—29 to 48 centimeters (11.4 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silty clay; 48 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 25 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; iron-manganese concretions and masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine irregular and 1 percent fine irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4) between peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1783. Fe accumulations only visible when ped is crushed and smeared.; continuous - phpvsfiid 22219; patchy - phpvsfiid 22220; continuous - phpvsfiid 22219; patchy - phpvsfiid 22220
    Btk1—48 to 67 centimeters (18.9 to 26.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 1 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds and 25 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; iron depletions and masses of oxidized iron and iron-manganese concretions; 22 percent fine spherical and 22 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules and 10 percent fine and medium irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 10 percent fine and medium irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2); fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1784. continuous - phpvsfiid 22209; continuous - phpvsfiid 22210; continuous - phpvsfiid 22209; continuous - phpvsfiid 22210
    Btk2—67 to 112 centimeters (26.4 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 5 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; iron-manganese concretions and masses of oxidized iron and iron depletions; 15 percent fine spherical between peds and 1 percent fine and medium irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 10 percent fine and medium irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 10 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1785. In this horizon the roots and depletions are only along the faces of the coarse prisims. This horizon exhibits weak fragic properties, it is almost brittle and it has the vertical mottling, low organic matter and high bulk density relative to the horizons above.; patchy - phpvsfiid 22211; patchy - phpvsfiid 22211
    2Btss—112 to 200 centimeters (44.1 to 78.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior clay; 52 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 50 percent prominent dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; iron-manganese concretions and iron depletions; 12 percent fine spherical between peds and 1 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules and 5 percent fine and medium irregular reddish gray (5YR 5/2); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1786. continuous - phpvsfiid 22228; continuous - phpvsfiid 22228
    2Cr—200 to 210 centimeters (78.7 to 82.7 inches); fragments.