IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wakeen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003KS055003
  • User Pedon ID: S2003KS055003
  • User Site Association ID: SPG Uly/Ulysses 3 to 6 percent study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0879
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16248
  • 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: 38.1871417
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5405444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 29W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 1,000 feet west and 1,300 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Finney County, Kansas
  • Map Unit: 1859—Ulysses silt loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS055—Finney
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS055—Finney County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-B5—Scott City 4 NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Graber, Jim McDowell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, carbonatic, active, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wakeen
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, carbonatic, active, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: chalk
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent chalk at 92cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—13

    0—92

    13—31

    13—43

    63—92

    92—

    —13—

    —92—

    —18—

    —30—

    —29—

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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

    7

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    835.2

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    120

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04493
    Bk1—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate medium granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04494
    Bk2—31 to 43 centimeters (12.2 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04495
    BC—43 to 63 centimeters (16.9 to 24.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04496
    Cr—63 to 92 centimeters (24.8 to 36.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; extremely channery loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    R—92 to 92 centimeters (36.2 to 36.2 inches); fragments.