IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vinland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS087024
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS087024
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS087024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40856
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 39.2588882
  • Std. Longitude: -95.4597244
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 18 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet south and 300 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 2 miles east on Highway 92 and 2 miles north on Ferguson Road till 118th street. Then 2.8 miles west onto Paradise Point. Just past a windbreak go 300 feet south into a brome pasture.
  • 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-C4—Valley Falls, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans, J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • 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 - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone and shale at 81cm
  • Geology: Severy Shale And Topeka Limestone member of the Shawnee formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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

    81 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—47

    47—81

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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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    293

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    90

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    A—0 to 29 centimeters (0.0 to 11.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3780; observed in push tube
    Bw—29 to 47 centimeters (11.4 to 18.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume flat subangular weakly coherent cemented ? to 4-? millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3781; observed in push tube
    BC—47 to 81 centimeters (18.5 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented ? to 20-? millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3782; observed in push tube