IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005KS099001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005KS099001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Aliceville Lula project
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 11205KS099-8643-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 25.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0815
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17348
  • 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: 37.3725281
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3423080
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 5
  • Map Unit: 8643—Catoosa silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS099—Labette
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS099—Labette County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37095-C3—Parsons West, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Gastineau
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lula
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 32 to 82 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2005
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 34 percent of Control section clay content


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent at 121cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    71 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    lithic contact

    0—32

    32—121

    32—121

    121—

    —32—

    —89—

    —89—

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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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    289

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    90

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    A—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04310; observed in push tube
    BA—21 to 32 centimeters (8.3 to 12.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04311; observed in push tube
    Bt1—32 to 58 centimeters (12.6 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, manganese masses in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04312; observed in push tube. 7.5YR 3/3 material in vertical cracks; continuous - phpvsfiid 323782; continuous - phpvsfiid 323782
    Bt2—58 to 121 centimeters (22.8 to 47.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior silty clay; 38 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 45 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, manganese masses in matrix and 20 percent fine distinct irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04313; observed in push tube. 7.5YR 3/3 material in vertical cracks; continuous - phpvsfiid 323783; continuous - phpvsfiid 323783
    R—121 to 125 centimeters (47.6 to 49.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.