IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989KS081007
  • User Pedon ID: S1989KS081007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989KS081007
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-SDJR comp pedsmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0734
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61834
  • 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: 37.4730555
  • Std. Longitude: -101.0061111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30S
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 713 feet south and 2237 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Haskell County, Kansas near Satanta.
  • Map Unit: 1856—Ulysses silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS081—Haskell
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS081—Haskell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37101-D1—Ryus, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Fortner, M. Ransom
  • 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 #: 7
  • 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 - 2/2/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth 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
  • Field Measured Properties: 38 centimeters of Depth to free carbonates and 29 percent of Estimated percent clay in PSCS


    • SITE

  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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

    mollic epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    cambic horizon

    free carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—38

    38—188

    38—61

    38—239

    155—201

    201—239

    201—239

    —38—

    —150—

    —23—

    —201—

    —46—

    —38—

    —38—
    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

    1

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    —

    907.7

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    270

    46

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    —

    13

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    —

    15

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    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable; few fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P04130; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate fine prismatic structure; hard, firm; few medium roots between peds; few fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04131; observed in pit, small. few distinct (10yr 5/3) Krotovina up to 50mm
    Bk1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; few fine and medium roots between peds; few medium tubular pores; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 1 percent fine spherical very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04132; observed in pit, small. effervescence is continuous
    Bk2—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine prismatic structure; hard, friable; few fine roots between peds; common fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 11 percent medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04133; observed in pit, small. few (10YR 3/1) Krotovina up to 40mm size, and few (10YR 4/3) Krotovina 10 to 30cm size; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 810098; patchy - phpvsfiid 810098
    Bk3—89 to 124 centimeters (35.0 to 48.8 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; few fine roots throughout; few medium tubular and common fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 1 percent medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 89P04134; observed in pit, small. effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 810099; patchy - phpvsfiid 1462087; patchy - phpvsfiid 810099; patchy - phpvsfiid 1462087
    Bk4—124 to 155 centimeters (48.8 to 61.0 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; few fine roots throughout; common fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine cylindrical carbonate threads and 1 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 89P04135; observed in pit, small. few (10YR 4/3) Krotovina up to 15mm size; pebbles near bottom of horizon; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 810101; patchy - phpvsfiid 810101
    2Bk5—155 to 188 centimeters (61.0 to 74.0 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; common fine roots throughout; few fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04136; observed in pit, small. more sand than horizon above; common (10YR 5/3) Krotovina; effervescence is continuous
    2C—188 to 201 centimeters (74.0 to 79.1 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, very friable; common fine roots throughout; few fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04137; observed in pit, small. few (10YR 5/3) Krotovina in 10 to 20mm size; effervescence is continuous
    3Bk—201 to 239 centimeters (79.1 to 94.1 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine roots between peds; common fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, pressure faces on vertical faces of peds and 37 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 89P04138; observed in pit, small. few (10YR 5/3) Krotovina up to 50mm size; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 810103; patchy - phpvsfiid 1462088; patchy - phpvsfiid 810103; patchy - phpvsfiid 1462088