IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NE057020
  • User Pedon ID: S1990NE057020
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0719
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62652
  • 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: 40.0165556
  • Std. Longitude: -101.7217056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet S and 400 feet W of Northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 1827—Sulco loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE057—Dundy
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE057—Dundy County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40101-A6—Parks, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.R. Hoover & M.K. Babcock
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulysses
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2016
  • 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
  • Landscape: breaks
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    0—38

    38—170

    38—104

    —38—

    —132—

    —66—
    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

    —

    —

    1009.5

    —

    0

    46

    —

    —

    11

    23

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P4249
    Bw1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; 23 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P4250
    Bw2—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P4251
    Bw3—66 to 104 centimeters (26.0 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; 15 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) coats on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P4252. few coats surface features on horizontal faces of peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1039676; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1039676
    C1—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; 21 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P4253
    C2—137 to 170 centimeters (53.9 to 66.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 90P4254. C2 material continues to a depth of 10ft