IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffalo Park
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS063001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS063001
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-Ulysses labOLD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0281
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13098
  • 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: 38.9889194
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5372000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12s
  • Range: 29w
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 38 meters north and 53 meters east of the Southwest corner
  • Map Unit: UeC2—ULYSSES-ULYSSES-ERODED COMPLEX, 2 TO 6 PERCENT SLOPES1968—Buffalo Park-Ulysses silt loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS063—Gove
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS063—Gove County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-H5—Orion NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tricks, Finnell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffalo Park (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2012
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 centimeters of Depth to free carbonates


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 28
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—11

    0—200

    11—40

    23—200

    106—200

    —11—

    —200—

    —29—

    —177—

    —94—
    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

    100

    —

    839.7

    —

    45

    550

    —

    175

    11

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01710; observed in pit, small
    Bw—11 to 23 centimeters (4.3 to 9.1 inches); 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior and 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint cylindrical dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01711; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—23 to 40 centimeters (9.1 to 15.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine faint irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores and 1 percent fine faint cylindrical dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01712; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—40 to 81 centimeters (15.7 to 31.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 6 percent fine faint irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01713; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1004690; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1004690
    Bk3—81 to 106 centimeters (31.9 to 41.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) exterior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine faint irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01714; observed in pit, small
    2Bk4—106 to 128 centimeters (41.7 to 50.4 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) exterior, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01715; observed in pit, small. Based on field experience I believe this horizon is influenced by slope alluvium from the Laverne member of Ogallala formation. dew; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 34936; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 34936
    2Bk5—128 to 200 centimeters (50.4 to 78.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent fine distinct irregular white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 01P01716; observed in pit, small. Based on field experience I believe this horizon is influenced by slope alluvium from the Laverne member of Ogallala formation. dew