IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wamego
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KS087003s
  • User Pedon ID: 95KS087003s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KS087003s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41075
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.2692032
  • Std. Longitude: -95.4768448
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 17 E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet south and 600 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: KSU LAB SAMPLE
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS087—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS087—Jefferson County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wamego
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 41 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 78.74 cm of Depth to shale


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 79cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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

    97 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—79

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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

    8

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    90

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; 30 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1363
    A2—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; 27 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1364
    Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay loam; 27 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 37 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent distinct clay films throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1365. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 23678; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 23678
    Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay loam; 26 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 35 percent clay; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1366. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24245; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24245
    Bt3—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS1367. continuous - phpvsfiid 24246; continuous - phpvsfiid 24246
    Cr—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); fragments.
    R—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches); fragments.