IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954NE087002
  • User Pedon ID: S1954NE087002
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-1620mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Keith lab
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2268
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36965
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.0577774
  • Std. Longitude: -101.1158371
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: .2 mile south and 110 feet east of northwest corner
  • Location Description: 8 miles south and 5 miles west of Trenton, Nebraska.
  • Map Unit: 1620—Keith silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE087—Hitchcock
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE087—Hitchcock County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40101-A1—Trenton SE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.H. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulysses
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2014
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/4/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 48
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    0—23

    23—58

    58—152

    84—152

    —23—

    —35—

    —94—

    —68—
    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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    135

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17803
    A—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17804
    Bw1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17805
    Bw2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17806
    Bk1—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17807
    Bk2—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; massive, and weak subangular blocky; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A17808
    C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A17809