IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970IN079002
  • User Pedon ID: 1970IN079002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JE7002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22425
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 38.9172389
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5574278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet east and 750 feet south of the northwest corner SW1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN079—Jennings

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders and Nickell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70021
    B1—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70022
    B21T—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70023
    B22T—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JE70024
    B23T—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JE70025
    B3—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; weak coarse platy structure; firm; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 35 percent , moist, iron-manganese concretions; 50 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JE70026
    C—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; 60 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # JE70027
    2R—109 to 111 centimeters (42.9 to 43.7 inches); fragments.