IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986KS063016
  • User Pedon ID: S1986KS063016
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59313
  • 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: 38.7615389
  • Std. Longitude: -100.3497250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet north and 1900 feet east of the SW corner of the SW quarter
  • Map Unit: 1857—Ulysses silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes1857—Ulysses silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS063—Gove
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS063—Gove County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-G3—Gove SE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. E. Watts
  • 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 SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 16
  • 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 - 2/3/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • 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: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    0—152

    28—53

    —28—

    —152—

    —25—
    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

    —

    —

    785.5

    —

    135

    46

    —

    —

    11

    22

    0

    12

    21

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00083; observed in pit, small. many fine roots throughout
    Bw—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; many fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00084; observed in pit, small. many fine roots throughout
    C1—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; many fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00085; observed in pit, small. many fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    C2—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable; common fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 87P00086; observed in pit, small. common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous