IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1973IN091001
  • User Pedon ID: 1973IN091001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LP7301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22320
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 41.4884306
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8922806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1280 feet south and 180 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN091—La Porte

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Montgomery and Furr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elston
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # LP73011
    A1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP73012
    B2T—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 4 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP73013
    B31—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films between sand grains; 7 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP73014
    B32—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP73015
    C1—109 to 157 centimeters (42.9 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; massive; friable; 1 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP73016