IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wathena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000KS103007
  • User Pedon ID: S2000KS103007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0173
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14241
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.3834190
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9197769
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Legal Survey not complete
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kacirek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Oxyaquic Udifluvents
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wathena
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy over loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Oxyaquic Udifluvents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • 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

    0.5

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    230

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    960

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    185

    12

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior very fine sandy loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N01176; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); 75 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and 25 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; massive; fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist,; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N01177; moist when described; observed in pit, small. stratification in this horizon
    C2—25 to 45 centimeters (9.8 to 17.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face loamy fine sand; massive; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N01178; moist when described; observed in pit, small. stratification in this horizon.
    C3—45 to 66 centimeters (17.7 to 26.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior very fine sandy loam; massive; fine distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4); fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 01N01179; moist when described; observed in pit, small. stratification in this horizon.
    C4—66 to 82 centimeters (26.0 to 32.3 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior and 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior very fine sandy loam; massive; 1 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist,; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 01N01180; moist when described; observed in pit, small. stratification in this horizon.
    C5—82 to 106 centimeters (32.3 to 41.7 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior and 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior loam; massive; 1 percent medium distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) and 1 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4); fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 01N01181; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C6—106 to 152 centimeters (41.7 to 59.8 inches); 90 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; massive; medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist,; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 01N01182; moist when described; observed in pit, small. a few snail shells present in this horizon