IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vinland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS103008
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS103008
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS103008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40860
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.3379936
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0789719
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7951—Gosport silty clay loam, 25 to 45 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-C1—Easton, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vinland
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 77 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2007
  • 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: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone and shale
  • Geology: Menoken Surface formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9
  • 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

    77 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    8—39

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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

    16

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    321.7

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    270

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3792
    Bw—8 to 39 centimeters (3.1 to 15.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3793
    BC—39 to 57 centimeters (15.4 to 22.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3794
    C—57 to 77 centimeters (22.4 to 30.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3795
    Cr—77 to 87 centimeters (30.3 to 34.3 inches); ; fragments.