IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boyer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1973IN087008
  • User Pedon ID: 1973IN087008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LG7308
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22279
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 41.6999750
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3105306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet east and 25 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: BoA—Boyer loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN087—Lagrange
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN087—Lagrange County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kirschner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Boyer
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boyer
  • Classificaton Date - 11/12/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsin outwash
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # LG73081
    BA—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LG73082
    B—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # LG73083
    Bt—43 to 79 centimeters (16.9 to 31.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly sandy loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 33 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # LG73084
    BCt—79 to 84 centimeters (31.1 to 33.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 33 percent organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # LG73085
    2C—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # LG73086