IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957KS109003
  • User Pedon ID: S1957KS109003
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1813
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35971
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.9680472
  • Std. Longitude: -101.1636805
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 653 feet east and 2430 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: 7 miles SE of Winona.
  • Map Unit: 1856—Ulysses silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS109—Logan
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS109—Logan County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38101-H2—Russell Springs, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Henry T. Otsuki
  • 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: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • 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 - 2/3/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/8/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 18
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • 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

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—18

    13—160

    18—36

    36—64

    —18—

    —147—

    —18—

    —28—
    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

    —

    —

    945.5

    —

    457

    —

    —

    11.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14446; observed in pit, small
    A—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14447; observed in pit, small
    Bw—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm; moderately slow permeability; clay films; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14448; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1004686; patchy - phpvsfiid 1004686
    Bk—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fine carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14449; observed in pit, small
    BC—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14450; observed in pit, small
    C1—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14451; observed in pit, small
    C2—122 to 160 centimeters (48.0 to 63.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; structureless massive; soft, very friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14452; observed in pit, small