IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003KS171002
  • User Pedon ID: S2003KS171002
  • 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 # - 03N0884
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16253
  • 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: 38.3349167
  • Std. Longitude: -100.7867778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 2,370 feet east and 930 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1859—Ulysses silt loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • 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-C7—Pawnee Mound, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Graber, Bob Tricks, Dan Davis
  • 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: NASIS
  • 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 - 7/24/2012
  • 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
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 53
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—24

    24—48

    24—215

    48—215

    106—161

    106—215

    —24—

    —24—

    —191—

    —167—

    —55—

    —109—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    894.6

    —

    200

    483

    —

    —

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 24 centimeters (0.0 to 9.4 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; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04527; observed in pit, small
    Bw—24 to 48 centimeters (9.4 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; hard, firm; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04528; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—48 to 75 centimeters (18.9 to 29.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04529; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—75 to 106 centimeters (29.5 to 41.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04530; observed in pit, small
    2Bk3—106 to 161 centimeters (41.7 to 63.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy loam; structureless massive; hard, firm; 40 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 6 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04531; observed in pit, small
    2Bk4—161 to 198 centimeters (63.4 to 78.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; coarse sandy loam; structureless massive; hard, firm; 15 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 2 percent fine faint irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 6 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04532; observed in pit, small
    2Bk5—198 to 215 centimeters (78.0 to 84.6 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; loamy coarse sand; structureless single grain; hard, friable; 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 03N04533; observed in pit, small