IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vinland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS087013
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS087013
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS087013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40872
  • 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: 39.1151962
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2022247
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 375 feet north and 2300 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Vo—VINLAND COMPLEX, 7 TO 15 PERCENT SLOPES7653—Vinland complex, 7 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS087—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS087—Jefferson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A2—Midland, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans & J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vinland
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 89cm
  • Geology: Kanwaka Shale formation of the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 35
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    89 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—12

    12—76

    89—

    —12—

    —64—

    89—-
    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

    22

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    309

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    145

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3955; observed in push tube
    Bw1—12 to 36 centimeters (4.7 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3956; observed in push tube
    Bw2—36 to 76 centimeters (14.2 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3957; observed in push tube
    C—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3958; observed in push tube
    Cr—89 to 99 centimeters (35.0 to 39.0 inches); fragments.; observed in push tube