IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007KS099108
  • User Pedon ID: S2007KS099108
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Aliceville Lula project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0033
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19521
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.3724670
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3433075
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31 S
  • Range: 19 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1200 ft north and 1000 ft west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: Cd—CATOOSA SILT LOAM, 0 TO 2 PERCENT SLOPES8643—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: Mark Abney, Katie Philbrick, Sheila Staton-Clifton, Bill Wehmueller, Don Gastineau
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 108
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lula
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, cherty at 107cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    107 - 200

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

    mollic epipedon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    0—30

    22—107

    30—107

    54—

    73—107

    107—200

    —30—

    —85—

    —77—

    —-

    —34—

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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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    —

    300

    —

    90

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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium granular parts to strong fine granular structure; friable; 12.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00197; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—11 to 22 centimeters (4.3 to 8.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) broken face silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00198; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—22 to 30 centimeters (8.7 to 11.8 inches); 60 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) broken face and 40 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) broken face silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries between peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00199; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—30 to 54 centimeters (11.8 to 21.3 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 20 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00200; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392278; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392278
    2Bt2—54 to 73 centimeters (21.3 to 28.7 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face very gravelly clay; 42 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 30 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 20-35-75 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 5-12-20 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00201; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392279; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392279
    2Btss—73 to 107 centimeters (28.7 to 42.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face flaggy clay; 47 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent pressure faces and 60 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout and 20 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 20 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 150-240-380 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00202; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392280; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392280
    2R—107 to 200 centimeters (42.1 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small