IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007KS207106
  • User Pedon ID: S2007KS207106
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Aliceville Lula project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19519
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • 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: 37.8561211
  • Std. Longitude: -95.5569305
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25 S
  • Range: 17 E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 2500 ft north and 400 ft west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Les Purcell Farm
  • Map Unit: Lb—LULA SILT LOAM, 0 TO 2 PERCENT SLOPES8795—Lula silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS207—Woodson
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS207—Woodson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37095-G5—Yates Center SE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Abney, Katie Philbrick, Sheila Staton-Cllifton, 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 #: 106
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lula
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: 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: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, cherty at 101cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/2007 (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

    101 - 200

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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

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    0—53

    19—101

    53—101

    53—101

    101—200

    —53—

    —82—

    —48—

    —48—

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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

    1

    —

    —

    300

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    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00184; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—9 to 19 centimeters (3.5 to 7.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00185; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—19 to 32 centimeters (7.5 to 12.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00186; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392282; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392282
    Bt2—32 to 53 centimeters (12.6 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) broken face silty clay; 45 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00187; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392283; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392283
    Btss1—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); 80 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; 47 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 70 percent distinct dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries between peds and 10 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00188; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392284; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392284
    Btss2—74 to 96 centimeters (29.1 to 37.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face very flaggy silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine wedge structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 70 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries between peds and 20 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; 50 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 150-240-380 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00189; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392285; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392285
    Btss3—96 to 101 centimeters (37.8 to 39.8 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face gravelly silty clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine wedge structure; firm; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 70 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 5-35-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00190; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392286; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392286
    R—101 to 200 centimeters (39.8 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small