IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wagstaff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KS121003
  • User Pedon ID: 09KS121003
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KS121003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40897
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 15 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 280 feet north and 920 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS121—Miami
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS121—Miami County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MAA & RGC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wagstaff
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 43 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: indurated at 84cm
  • Geology: Spring Hill Limestone member of the Plattsburg Limestone formation in the Lansing group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    84 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—86

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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

    3

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4394; observed in push tube
    A—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4395; observed in push tube
    AB—31 to 43 centimeters (12.2 to 16.9 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; distinct clay films throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4396; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 463267; continuous - phpvsfiid 463267
    Bt1—43 to 59 centimeters (16.9 to 23.2 inches); 75 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; 45 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4397; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 463268; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 463268
    Bt2—59 to 86 centimeters (23.2 to 33.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 40 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; prominent dark gray (7.5YR 4/1), moist, clay films throughout; 30 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4398; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 463269; continuous - phpvsfiid 463269
    R—86 to 200 centimeters (33.9 to 78.7 inches); fragments.; observed in push tube