IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vinland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS087016
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS087016
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS087016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40874
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.0916100
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2079468
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet north and 350 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: Vc—VINLAND COMPLEX, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES7651—Vinland complex, 3 to 7 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: Fine-loamy, smectitic, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Fine-loamy, smectitic, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/28/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy & silty loamy residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 110cm
  • Geology: Kanwaka Shale formation of the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/28/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 40
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    paralithic contact

    0—28

    28—87

    69—147

    110—147

    —28—

    —59—

    —78—

    —37—
    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

    8

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    316

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    15

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3938; observed in push tube
    BA—14 to 28 centimeters (5.5 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3939; observed in push tube
    Bw1—28 to 40 centimeters (11.0 to 15.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3940; observed in push tube
    Bw2—40 to 69 centimeters (15.7 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 5-?-8 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3941; observed in push tube
    Bw3—69 to 87 centimeters (27.2 to 34.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 6 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3942; observed in push tube
    2C—87 to 110 centimeters (34.3 to 43.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout; 6 percent by volume flat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3943; observed in push tube
    2Cr—110 to 147 centimeters (43.3 to 57.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4 percent fine distinct dendritic extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # KSUSS3944; observed in push tube