IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffalo Park
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957KS075006
  • User Pedon ID: S1957KS075006
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1812
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35970
  • 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: 37.8568611
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6210278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25S
  • Range: 39W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1577 feet west and 227 feet N of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 7 miles SW 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 Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffalo Park
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2012
  • 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: 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: 69
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    0—10

    0—10

    15—36

    15—168

    36—81

    —10—

    —10—

    —21—

    —153—

    —45—
    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

    —

    —

    1020.2

    —

    90

    432

    —

    —

    12.2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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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; fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14438
    Ap2—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak coarse platy, and massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A14439
    Bw1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, firm; clay films; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A14440. patchy - phpvsfiid 1039682; patchy - phpvsfiid 1039682
    Bw2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm; clay films; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A14441. patchy - phpvsfiid 1039683; patchy - phpvsfiid 1039683
    Bk1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14442
    Bk2—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14443
    C1—81 to 124 centimeters (31.9 to 48.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; massive, and weak coarse subangular blocky; soft, friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14444
    C2—124 to 168 centimeters (48.8 to 66.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14445