IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffalo Park
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986KS093008
  • User Pedon ID: S1986KS093008
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-Ulysses labOLD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59323
  • 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: 38.0976889
  • Std. Longitude: -101.2605833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22s
  • Range: 36w
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 2525 feet south and 1810 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1856—Ulysses silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes1856—Ulysses silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS093—Kearny
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS093—Kearny County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38101-A3—Leoti 3 SE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald R. Jantz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • 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 #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffalo Park
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2016
  • 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: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 22
  • 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

    free carbonates

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—152

    0—13

    13—30

    30—152

    —152—

    —13—

    —17—

    —122—
    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

    —

    —

    965.9

    —

    90

    43

    —

    —

    13

    25

    0

    14

    25

    2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common very fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00140; observed in pit, small. Estimate 25 percent clay.; common very fine roots throughout
    Bw—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; common very fine roots throughout; few very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00141; observed in pit, small. Estimate 30 percent clay.; common very fine roots throughout
    Bk1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; few very fine roots throughout; common very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00142; observed in pit, small. Estimate 29 percent clay.; few medium carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    Bk2—46 to 152 centimeters (18.1 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; few very fine roots throughout; common very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter. Lab sample # 87P00143; observed in pit, small. Estimate 23 percent clay.; few medium carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine roots throughout