IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003KS171001
  • User Pedon ID: S2003KS171001
  • User Site Association ID: SPG Uly/Ulysses 3 to 6 percent study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0883
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16252
  • 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: 38.6904444
  • Std. Longitude: -100.7664722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 1,460 feet west and 1,740 feet north of the Southeast corner
  • Location Description: Scott County, Kansas
  • Map Unit: 1345—Bridgeport loam, rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS171—Scott
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS171—Scott County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-F7—Lake Scott NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Graber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • 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 - 3/31/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—46

    0—200

    46—80

    46—104

    168—200

    —46—

    —200—

    —34—

    —58—

    —32—
    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

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    —

    840.9

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    120

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    A—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04520
    Bw—21 to 46 centimeters (8.3 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04521
    Bk1—46 to 80 centimeters (18.1 to 31.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04522
    Bk2—80 to 104 centimeters (31.5 to 40.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04523
    BC—104 to 128 centimeters (40.9 to 50.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04524
    C—128 to 168 centimeters (50.4 to 66.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04525
    2C—168 to 200 centimeters (66.1 to 78.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; Error; structureless single grain; loose, loose; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 03N04526