IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986KS093013
  • User Pedon ID: S1986KS093013
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59325
  • 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: 38.1033333
  • Std. Longitude: -101.2786444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1990 feet east and 525 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1857—Ulysses silt loam, 1 to 3 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 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 #: 13
  • 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 - 10/26/2012
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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 Position: upper third
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    28—152

    28—152

    28—43

    —28—

    —124—

    —152—

    —15—
    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

    —

    —

    978.4

    —

    225

    43

    —

    —

    13

    25

    0

    14

    25

    2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 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; moderate permeability; many very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00148; observed in pit, small. Estimate 18 percent clay.; many very fine roots throughout
    Bw—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; many very fine roots throughout; few very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00149; observed in pit, small. Estimate 29 percent clay.; many very fine roots throughout
    Bk1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; common very fine roots throughout; few very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00150; observed in pit, small. Estimate 30 percent clay.; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; The describer gave this horizon a k subscript, but no identifiable secondary carbonates were described.
    Bk2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; moderately slow permeability; common very fine roots throughout; few very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00151; observed in pit, small. Estimate 29 percent clay.; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; The describer gave this horizon a k subscript, but no identifiable secondary carbonates were described.
    Bk3—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 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 # 87P00152; observed in pit, small. Estimate 24 percent clay.; few medium carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; Structure was described as structureless massive, but experience in small pits confirms these bottom Bk horizon are usually coarse to very coarse prismatic.