IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wagonbed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005KS101303
  • User Pedon ID: S2005KS101303
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0224
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18431
  • 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: 38.5676498
  • Std. Longitude: -100.3191147
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 238 meters east and 24 meters north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: East from Dighton, Kansas on KS96 to Pawnee Rd. North on Pawnee Rd. about 5 mi. to 200 Rd. East on 200 RD. about 3 mi to Scout Rd. North on Scout Rd about 1 mile.
  • Map Unit: 2750—Penden clay loam, 7 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-E3—Shields SE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Cochran, S. Garber, W. Wehmueller, T. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 303
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wagonbed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Calciustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2005
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess over Ogallal loamy residuum
  • Landscape: breaks
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—31

    30—

    46—81

    131—

    31—-

    —-

    35—-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    809

    —

    200

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00814; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks and 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00815; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 326435; patchy - phpvsfiid 326435
    Bk2—31 to 46 centimeters (12.2 to 18.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots in cracks; 2.0 fine low-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00816; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots in cracks; 7.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00817; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—81 to 131 centimeters (31.9 to 51.6 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots in cracks; 1.0 medium low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent coarse irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00818; observed in pit, small
    2Bk5—131 to 162 centimeters (51.6 to 63.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent coarse irregular carbonate masses and 4 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00819; observed in pit, small
    2Bk6—162 to 203 centimeters (63.8 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent coarse threadlike carbonate masses and 4 percent coarse irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00820; observed in pit, small