IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957KS109004
  • User Pedon ID: S1957KS109004
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-SDJR comp pedsmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1814
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35972
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.9265694
  • Std. Longitude: -101.2596417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2425 feet south and 151 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: 4 miles W of Russell Springs.
  • 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-H3—Russell Springs 2 NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Henry T. Otsuki.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulysses
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • 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
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • 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: 7/9/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 27
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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—23

    13—178

    23—64

    33—64

    —23—

    —165—

    —41—

    —31—
    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

    —

    —

    922.6

    —

    483

    —

    —

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14453
    A—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14454
    Bw1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14455. patchy - phpvsfiid 1324683; patchy - phpvsfiid 1324683
    Bw2—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm; clay films; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14456. patchy - phpvsfiid 1324684; patchy - phpvsfiid 1324684
    Bk—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 3 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14457
    BC—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14458
    C1—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14459
    C2—127 to 160 centimeters (50.0 to 63.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14460
    C3—160 to 178 centimeters (63.0 to 70.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; structureless massive; soft, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14461