IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957KS075005
  • User Pedon ID: S1957KS075005
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-SDJR comp pedsmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1811
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35969
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.8446110
  • Std. Longitude: -101.5798060
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25S
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet north and 225 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 7 miles SSW of Kendall.
  • Map Unit: 1854—Ulysses loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS075—Hamilton
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS075—Hamilton County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37101-G5—Syracuse East SE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Henry T. Otsuki
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, 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
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulysses
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth 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: eolian deposits
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: rise
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 70
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—25

    13—165

    25—61

    41—61

    —25—

    —152—

    —36—

    —20—
    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

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    —

    1036

    —

    45

    432

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14430
    Ap2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak coarse platy, and weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14431
    Bw1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak and moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; clay films; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14432. Worm casts are a mixture of material from above and below.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1324685; patchy - phpvsfiid 1324685
    Bw2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak and moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; clay films; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14433. Worm casts are a mixture of material from above and below.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1324686; patchy - phpvsfiid 1324686
    Bk—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable; moderate permeability; clay films; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14434. patchy - phpvsfiid 1324687; patchy - phpvsfiid 1324687
    BC—61 to 94 centimeters (24.0 to 37.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14435
    C1—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; structureless massive; soft, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14436
    C2—124 to 165 centimeters (48.8 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; loam; structureless massive; soft, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A14437