IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wakeen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006KS123701
  • User Pedon ID: S2006KS123701
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0849
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18472
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 39.4618340
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0431976
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 South
  • Range: 7 West
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • Location Description: From the intersection of 8th St. and US Highway 24 in Beloit, go east 2.8 miles to 340 road, then south 3 miles, and 500 feet west in pasture.
  • Map Unit: 2953—Wakeen silt loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS123—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS123—Mitchell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-D1—Beloit, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Anderson, John Warner, Bob Murphy, Tyler Labenz, Jeff Hellerich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, carbonatic, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 701
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wakeen
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, carbonatic, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone and shale at 68cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R073XY012KS Limy Upland (Draft) Under Peer Review (PE 20-26)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    —

    —

    68 - 120

    120 -

    —

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—29

    29—47

    68—

    69—120

    120—

    —29—

    —18—

    —-

    —51—

    —-
    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

    4.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    225

    699

    —

    184

    12.2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KS0693

    Beloit

    WETS
    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03636; observed in pit, small
    A2—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03637; observed in pit, small
    Bw—29 to 47 centimeters (11.4 to 18.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03638; observed in pit, small
    BC—47 to 68 centimeters (18.5 to 26.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03639; observed in pit, small
    Cr—68 to 120 centimeters (26.8 to 47.2 inches);, 60 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) broken face and 40 percent white (2.5Y 8/1) broken face, moist; weathered bedrock; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03640; observed in pit, small
    R—120 centimeters (47.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small