IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulysses
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013KS203001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013KS203001
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-Ulysses lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0264
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74447
  • 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: 38.5747139
  • Std. Longitude: -101.4447028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17s
  • Range: 37w
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 674 meters north and 240 meters west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 1856—Ulysses silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS203—Wichita
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS203—Wichita County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38101-E4—Russell Springs 3 SW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran and Daniel Wood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • 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 - 8/26/2013
  • Classifier - Daniel Wood
  • 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: loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • 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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap1

    Ap2

    Bw

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    Bk4

    0

    11

    22

    47

    79

    114

    154

    11

    22

    47

    79

    114

    154

    200

    14N00841

    14N00842

    14N00843

    14N00844

    14N00845

    14N00846

    14N00847

    Tom Cochran

    Tom Cochran

    Tom Cochran

    Tom Cochran

    Tom Cochran

    Tom Cochran

    Tom Cochran

    24.1

    24.3

    27.2

    25.1

    23.2

    21.7

    21.1

    0

    1

    5.3

    5.6

    4.3

    3.3

    3.3

    54.9

    56.4

    57.4

    61.9

    63.4

    64.7

    65.5

    16.1

    16.6

    18.7

    23.8

    26.1

    26.6

    26.9

    38.8

    39.8

    38.7

    38.1

    37.3

    38.1

    38.6

    21

    19.3

    15.4

    13

    13.4

    13.6

    13.4

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    0.2

    0.2

    0.1

    0.1

    0.1

    0.1

    0.1

    0.3

    0.2

    0.1

    0.1

    0.1

    0.1

    0.1

    1.1

    1

    0.2

    0.3

    0.3

    0.2

    0.3

    1.9

    1.4

    1

    0.6

    0.7

    0.8

    0.6

    17.5

    16.5

    14

    11.8

    12.2

    12.4

    12.3

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    8

    8.3

    8.3

    8.3
    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap1

    Ap2

    Bw

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    Bk4

    0

    11

    22

    47

    79

    114

    154

    11

    22

    47

    79

    114

    154

    200

    14N00841

    14N00842

    14N00843

    14N00844

    14N00845

    14N00846

    14N00847

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap1

    Ap2

    Bw

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    Bk4

    0

    11

    22

    47

    79

    114

    154

    11

    22

    47

    79

    114

    154

    200

    14N00841

    14N00842

    14N00843

    14N00844

    14N00845

    14N00846

    14N00847

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    0.85

    1.29

    0.81

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    0.41

    0.46

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    0—22

    22—47

    22—200

    47—200

    —22—

    —25—

    —178—

    —153—
    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

    0.5

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    1029

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    90

    483

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    160

    12

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    Ap1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 14N00841; observed in pit, small. About 12 cm of loose, powdery loess with 20% fine to medium subangular block structure, recently disked.
    Ap2—11 to 22 centimeters (4.3 to 8.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct pressure faces on bottom faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 14N00842; observed in pit, small
    Bw—22 to 47 centimeters (8.7 to 18.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; common (2.0) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 14N00843; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—47 to 79 centimeters (18.5 to 31.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (4.0) fine low-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 14N00844; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) fine low-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 14N00845; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—114 to 154 centimeters (44.9 to 60.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine low-continuity tubular and common (2.0) fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules in matrix and 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 14N00846; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—154 to 200 centimeters (60.6 to 78.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) fine low-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 14N00847; observed in pit, small