IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wagonbed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003KS101001
  • User Pedon ID: S2003KS101001
  • 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 # - 03N0880
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16249
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.6519432
  • Std. Longitude: -100.6292801
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 30W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: Approximately, 950 feet east and 1,750 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: This site is 3 miles north and 0.75 miles west of Healy, Kansas
  • Map Unit: 1860—Ulysses silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS101—Lane
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS101—Lane County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-F6—Healy NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Graber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wagonbed
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Calciustepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 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: calcareous loess
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/23/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 7
  • 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

    calcic horizon

    0—17

    0—210

    17—40

    17—158

    40—77

    —17—

    —210—

    —23—

    —141—

    —37—
    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

    8

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    —

    846

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    20

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    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04497; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—17 to 40 centimeters (6.7 to 15.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04498; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—40 to 59 centimeters (15.7 to 23.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04499; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—59 to 77 centimeters (23.2 to 30.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04500; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—77 to 97 centimeters (30.3 to 38.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04501; observed in pit, small
    Bk5—97 to 139 centimeters (38.2 to 54.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; fine sandy loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04502; observed in pit, small
    Bk6—139 to 158 centimeters (54.7 to 62.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04503; observed in pit, small
    C—158 to 210 centimeters (62.2 to 82.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 03N04504; observed in pit, small