IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffalo Park
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991KS081010
  • User Pedon ID: S1991KS081010
  • 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 # - 91P0811
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63849
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.6338889
  • Std. Longitude: -101.0238889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28S
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 109 meters south and 590 meters west of northeast corner
  • Location Description: NW 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Map Unit: 1857—Ulysses silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS081—Haskell
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS081—Haskell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37101-F1—Hickok NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Klamath, S. Glaum, H. LaGarry-Guyon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffalo Park
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh 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: rise
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—15

    30—56

    127—198

    198—284

    284—340

    340—373

    373—597

    —15—

    —26—

    —71—

    —86—

    —56—

    —33—

    —224—
    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

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    933

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4851
    Bw1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4852
    Bw2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4853
    Bk—56 to 127 centimeters (22.0 to 50.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4854. few fine masses of CaCO3
    2C1—127 to 198 centimeters (50.0 to 78.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4855
    3C2—198 to 284 centimeters (78.0 to 111.8 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4856
    4C3—284 to 340 centimeters (111.8 to 133.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4857. few fine concretions; many fine masses of CaCO3
    5C4—340 to 373 centimeters (133.9 to 146.9 inches);, light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4858
    6C5—373 to 597 centimeters (146.9 to 235.0 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loamy fine sand; massive; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4859