IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffalo Park
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986KS063009
  • User Pedon ID: S1986KS063009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986KS063009
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-Ulysses labOLD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59312
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.7436750
  • Std. Longitude: -100.7672306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet north and 1450 feet east of the SW corner of the SE quarter
  • Map Unit: 1857—Ulysses silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS063—Gove
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS063—Gove County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-F7—Lake Scott NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. E. Watts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffalo Park
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: —Error in Exists On—
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 65
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRITI

    TRITI

    Triticum

    Triticum

    wheat

    wheat

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

    free carbonates

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—152

    0—10

    10—38

    38—152

    —152—

    —10—

    —28—

    —114—
    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

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    —

    837.6

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    270

    46

    —

    —

    11

    22

    0

    12

    21

    9

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00079; observed in pit, small. common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bw—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; few fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00080; observed in pit, small. few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bk1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; few fine roots throughout; 5 percent carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00081; observed in pit, small. Common lime masses.; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bk2—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; structureless massive; soft, very friable; few fine roots throughout; 5 percent carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 87P00082; observed in pit, small. Common lime masses.; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous