IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954NE087003
  • User Pedon ID: S1954NE087003
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2269
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36966
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 40.0758330
  • Std. Longitude: -101.0406110
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 33W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 225 feet east and 150 feet north of southwest corner
  • Location Description: 7 miles south and 1 mile west of Trenton, Nebraska.
  • Map Unit: 1620—Keith silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE087—Hitchcock
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE087—Hitchcock County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40101-A1—Trenton SE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.H. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulysses
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2014
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/1954
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/4/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    0—25

    25—51

    51—107

    107—152

    —25—

    —26—

    —56—

    —45—
    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

    —

    —

    909.2

    —

    225

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17810
    A—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3 percent worm casts; fragments smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17811
    Bw1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; fine subangular blocky, and coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17812
    Bw2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17813
    Bk1—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17814
    Bk2—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17815
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17816