IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vinland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS005012
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS005012
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS005012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40867
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 39.5946388
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3908615
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 S
  • Range: 18 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet south and 1500 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: Vs—VINLAND SILTY CLAY LOAM, 4 TO 15 PERCENT SLOPES7655—Vinland silty clay loam, 4 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS005—Atchison
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS005—Atchison County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-E4—Effingham, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans & J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vinland
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • 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: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/19/2007 (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

    50 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—14

    14—31

    31—

    —14—

    —17—

    31—-
    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

    18

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    322

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    245

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3984; observed in push tube
    Bw—14 to 31 centimeters (5.5 to 12.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior silty clay loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3985; observed in push tube
    BC—31 to 60 centimeters (12.2 to 23.6 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/4) exterior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3986; observed in push tube