IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995KS181002
  • User Pedon ID: S1995KS181002
  • 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 # - 95P0481
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67499
  • 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: 39.2746444
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6377167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet south and 1320 feet west of northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 1621—Keith-Ulysses silt loams, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS181—Sherman
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS181—Sherman County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39101-C6—Goodland, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Tricks
  • 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
  • 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 - 1/21/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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: rise
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/17/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 24
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—229

    25—43

    43—229

    69—229

    —25—

    —204—

    —18—

    —186—

    —160—
    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

    2

    46

    23

    1150

    —

    145

    432

    —

    —

    11

    23

    -1

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap1—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 and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; common fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03617. S95KS181002-1
    Ap2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; common fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03618. S95KS181002-2
    Bw—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots between peds; common fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03619. S95KS181002-3; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27960; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27960
    Bk1—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); 80 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3), 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; common fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03620. S95KS181002-4; This horizon was given a k subscript by the describer, but no identifiable secondary carbonates were described.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27961; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27961
    2Bk2—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots between peds; common fine and medium moderate-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent faint very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, pressure faces; 3 percent fine and medium threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses between peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03621. S95KS181002-5; continuous - phpvsfiid 27962; continuous - phpvsfiid 27962
    2Bk3—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); 60 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots between peds; common fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses between peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03622. S95KS181002-6; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27963; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27963
    2Bk4—140 to 170 centimeters (55.1 to 66.9 inches); 70 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3), 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots between peds; common fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 3 percent fine and medium threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses between peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03623. S95KS181002-7
    2Bk5—170 to 229 centimeters (66.9 to 90.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; common fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent fine and medium threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses between peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 95P03624. S95KS181002-8