IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wagonbed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003KS101002
  • User Pedon ID: S2003KS101002
  • User Site Association ID: SPG Uly/Ulysses 3 to 6 percent studymlra72-Ulysses labOLD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0881
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16250
  • 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: 38.3423111
  • Std. Longitude: -100.3959889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20s
  • Range: 28w
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet west and 3050 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 1860—Ulysses silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes1961—Buffalo Park-Ulysses silt loams, 6 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS101—Lane
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS101—Lane County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-C4—Dighton SW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Graber, Jim McDowell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcidic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wagonbed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcidic Haplustalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 17 to 49 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/2016
  • 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
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loess over slope alluvium
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • 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

    free carbonates

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—200

    0—17

    17—49

    35—200

    49—115

    49—179

    179—200

    —200—

    —17—

    —32—

    —165—

    —66—

    —130—

    —21—
    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

    9

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    —

    827.5

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    120

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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; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine roots throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04505; observed in pit, small
    Bt—17 to 35 centimeters (6.7 to 13.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; common fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04506; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1462074; continuous - phpvsfiid 1462074
    Btk—35 to 49 centimeters (13.8 to 19.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; common fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine faint threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04507; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1462073; continuous - phpvsfiid 1462073
    Bk1—49 to 81 centimeters (19.3 to 31.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; few fine roots throughout; 35 percent fine faint threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04508; observed in pit, small
    2Bk2—81 to 115 centimeters (31.9 to 45.3 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; few fine roots throughout; 45 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04509; observed in pit, small
    2BCk1—115 to 148 centimeters (45.3 to 58.3 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; few fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04510; observed in pit, small
    2BCk2—148 to 179 centimeters (58.3 to 70.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; few very fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04511; observed in pit, small
    3C—179 to 200 centimeters (70.5 to 78.7 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; silt loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; few very fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 03N04512; observed in pit, small