IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995KS193005
  • User Pedon ID: S1995KS193005
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0486
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67504
  • 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: 39.1612111
  • Std. Longitude: -101.3525333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1109 feet south and 497 feet east of northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1857—Ulysses silt loam, 1 to 3 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-B3—McAllaster NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Tricks
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-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 #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulysses
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/2016
  • 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: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/17/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 73
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    free carbonates

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    0—203

    0—18

    18—41

    41—61

    119—203

    —203—

    —18—

    —23—

    —20—

    —84—
    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

    3

    107

    67

    1149

    —

    270

    483

    —

    —

    10

    23

    -2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; common fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03655; observed in pit, small
    AB—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots between peds; common fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03656; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1004683; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1004683
    Bw—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots between peds; common fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03657; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1004684; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1004684
    Bk—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; common fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains throughout; 3 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1) carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03658; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1004685; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1004685
    C—61 to 119 centimeters (24.0 to 46.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; many fine and medium moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03659; observed in pit, small
    B'k—119 to 203 centimeters (46.9 to 79.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak very coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; common fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 3 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 95P03660; observed in pit, small