IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vinland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS087017
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS087017
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS087017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40875
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 39.0889740
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2091675
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: of the southeast 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: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vinland
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2007
  • 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 88cm
  • Geology: Kanwaka Shale formation of the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/29/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 35
  • 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

    88 -

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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—30

    30—61

    88—

    —30—

    —21—

    88—-
    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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    309

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    0

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    A1—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; 26 percent clay; 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3987; observed in push tube
    Aw2—16 to 30 centimeters (6.3 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; 24 percent clay; 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; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3988; observed in push tube
    Bw—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior and 20 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) exterior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3989; observed in push tube
    C—61 to 88 centimeters (24.0 to 34.6 inches); 60 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) exterior and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3990; observed in push tube
    Cr—88 to 98 centimeters (34.6 to 38.6 inches); fragments.; observed in push tube