IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vinland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103503
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103503
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103503
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40221
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.0545387
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0911789
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet south and 700 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: Vs—VINLAND-SIBLEYVILLE COMPLEX, 5 TO 12 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A1—Tonganoxie, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vinland
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 0 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone and shale at 66cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    50 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—27

    27—50

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    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

    2

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    90

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    A—0 to 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); loam; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3104; observed in push tube
    Bw—27 to 50 centimeters (10.6 to 19.7 inches); silt loam; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3105; observed in push tube
    Cr—50 to 66 centimeters (19.7 to 26.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3106; observed in push tube