IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988KS193002
  • User Pedon ID: S1988KS193002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 88KS193002
  • User Site Association ID: 2570mlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0864
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60982
  • 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: 39.2438889
  • Std. Longitude: -101.1338882
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet W and 2250 feet S of NE corner
  • Map Unit: 1859—Ulysses silt loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS193—Thomas
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS193—Thomas County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39101-B2—Winona NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fortner, Tricks, Ransom, Klamath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulysses
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/2013
  • 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 over alluvium derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 60
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOUTE

    BUDA

    Bouteloua

    Buchloe dactyloides

    grama

    buffalograss

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    secondary carbonates

    0—38

    25—605

    38—96

    38—211

    465—605

    465—605

    —38—

    —580—

    —58—

    —173—

    —140—

    —140—
    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

    6

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    989.1

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    270

    48

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    10

    23

    2

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; few medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04627; observed in pit, small
    Bw—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; many fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium irregular worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04628; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); 70 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; many fine roots throughout; 2 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium irregular worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04629; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 28258; patchy - phpvsfiid 28258
    Bk2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; common fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04630; observed in pit, small. few filled root channels,10YR3/2, up to 5mm in diameter,few tunnels up to 60mm in diameter
    Bk3—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; common fine roots throughout; 2 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04631; observed in pit, small. few tunnels up to 70mm in diameter, few insect tunnels up to 5mm in diameter; patchy - phpvsfiid 28259; patchy - phpvsfiid 28259
    Bk4—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; few fine roots throughout; 2 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04632; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 28260; patchy - phpvsfiid 28260
    Bk5—130 to 191 centimeters (51.2 to 75.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; few fine roots throughout; few very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 2 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04633; observed in pit, small. few krotovina(10YR 7/3 and 10YR 5/2, dry) up to 60mm in diameter; patchy - phpvsfiid 28261; patchy - phpvsfiid 28261
    Bk6—191 to 211 centimeters (75.2 to 83.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; few fine roots throughout; common very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 2 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on surfaces along pores; 11 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04634; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 28262; patchy - phpvsfiid 28262
    Bk7—211 to 465 centimeters (83.1 to 183.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; common very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 2 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on surfaces along pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04635, 88P04636, 88P04637, 88P04638, 88P04639; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 28263; patchy - phpvsfiid 28263
    2Bk8—465 to 541 centimeters (183.1 to 213.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; common very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 2 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04640; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 28264; patchy - phpvsfiid 28264
    2Bk9—541 to 605 centimeters (213.0 to 238.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 15 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium irregular carbonate nodules and 30 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 88P04642, 88P04641; observed in push tube. carbonates decrease at 580cm(228 inches); discontinuous - phpvsfiid 28265; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 28265