Soil Series Atlas

Valent soil series

Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamments

050100150cm1 ft2 ft3 ft4 ftATopsoil0–10 cm · 0–4 inCParent material10–152 cm · 4–60 in050100150cmATopsoil0–10 cm · 0–4 inCParent material10–152 cm · 4–60 in
Typical pedon, to scale: 152 cm (60 in), 2 horizons.

Entisols — young soils with little or no horizon development

With 3.53 million acres mapped, Valent is the 9th-largest of 24,791 U.S. soil series. No series covers more of Colorado: it accounts for 3.6% of the state’s mapped soil. It is the only series in the atlas that belongs to the great group Torripsamments. Among the 3,003 mapped Entisols it is the 2nd-largest.

Depth
Very deep
Drainage
Excessively drained
Water movement
High

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Where Valent is mapped

3,525,118 acres in 66 soil survey areas, from current SSURGO data.

AlabamaArizonaColorado: 1,761,872 acresFloridaGeorgiaIndianaKansas: 321,114 acresMaineMassachusettsMinnesotaNew JerseyNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOklahoma: 11,278 acresPennsylvaniaSouth Dakota: 17,255 acresTexasWyoming: 129,533 acresConnecticutMissouriWest VirginiaIllinoisNew Mexico: 570 acresArkansasCaliforniaDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaIowaKentuckyMarylandMichiganMississippiMontanaNew HampshireNew YorkOhioOregonTennesseeUtahVirginiaWashingtonWisconsinNebraska: 1,283,496 acresSouth CarolinaIdahoNevadaVermontLouisianaRhode Island

Share of all Valent acres

  1. Colorado50%
  2. Nebraska36%
  3. Kansas9%
  4. Wyoming4%
  5. South Dakota0.5%
  6. Oklahoma0.3%
  7. New Mexico<0.1%
  • Rank in the state · share of its mapped soil
  • Colorado 1st of 1,609 · 3.58%
  • Nebraska 5th of 414 · 2.76%
  • Kansas 39th of 452 · 0.63%

In the field

Drainage

Excessively drained

Drains fastStays wet

Valentine, Lakeland, and Windsor also are excessively drained.

Soil depth

Very deep

ShallowDeep

Water movement (Ksat)

High

SlowFast

Valentine, Kalkaska, and Windsor also have high Ksat.

Parent material
Eolian deposits
Landform
Hills, dunes/sandhills
Major land resource areas
67, 69, 72
Type location
Colorado

How it is classified

  1. OrderEntisols
  2. SuborderPsamments
  3. Great groupTorripsamments
  4. SubgroupUstic Torripsamments
  5. FamilyMixed, mesic Ustic Torripsammentsmixed mineralogy classmesic soil temperature regime

Against other Entisols

Valent makes up 1.80% of all mapped Entisols — the 2nd largest of 3,003 series in the order. Its solum, subsoil depth and described depth all lie within 5 cm of the order’s medians.

Its relatives

11 other established series share the family “Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamments”

  1. Valent3.5 M
  2. Mido462 k
  3. Dwyer223 k
  4. Orpha187 k
  5. Pinavetes144 k
  6. Pensom143 k
  7. Tullock71 k
  8. Valerian56 k
  9. Karval25 k

Other Entisols in this atlas

  1. Valent152 cm · Ustic Torripsamments
  2. Valentine203 cm · Typic Ustipsamments
  3. Cabbart152 cm · Aridic Ustorthents
  4. Bibb152 cm · Typic Fluvaquents
  5. Cabba152 cm · Typic Ustorthents
  6. Lakeland203 cm · Typic Quartzipsamments

Horizon by horizon

HorizonLayerDepthThickness
ATopsoil0–10 cm0–4 in10 cm
CParent material10–152 cm4–60 in142 cm

Sources: USDA–NRCS Official Series Description (revised 2008-08), Soil Classification database and SSURGO. Ranks computed by Soil Series Atlas. Method · Guides