IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92KS129061
  • User Pedon ID: 92KS129061
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 92KS129061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41007
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.2563210
  • Std. Longitude: -101.7728119
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 600'S 200'E OF THE NW CORNER OF THE 23-32-41
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS129—Morton
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS129—Morton County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. McDowell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulysses
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/7/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    0—20

    20—46

    20—132

    20—66

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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

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; weak medium granular structure; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0182
    Bk—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0183
    BCk—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0184
    C—66 to 132 centimeters (26.0 to 52.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; massive; fragments; violent effervescence.