IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Riddles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974IN087009
  • User Pedon ID: 1974IN087009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LG7409
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22518
  • User Project ID: 2024GRR022
  • Project Name: EVAL - MLRA 98 - Hillsdale sandy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 41.7594000
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3188694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet east of the center of the eastern half of section 12
  • Location Description: Greenfield Township: 500 ft E of the center of section 12
  • Map Unit: HdA—Hillsdale sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN087—Lagrange
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN087—Lagrange County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41085-G3—Burr Oak, Michigan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kirschner and Hillis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Riddles
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: rise on till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F098XA015MI Dry Loamy Drift Plains Apr 3 2024 Sydney Lance

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: soil survey staff
  • 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
    • 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

    1

    —

    —

    280.5

    —

    270

    951

    —

    155

    8.6

    20.7

    -4.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    120200

    Angola

    NWS COOP
    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # LG74091
    A2—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4. Lab sample # LG74092
    B21T—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1. Lab sample # LG74093
    B22T—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds and 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7. Lab sample # LG74094
    B23T—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7. Lab sample # LG74095
    B24T—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # LG74096
    B3—140 to 185 centimeters (55.1 to 72.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # LG74097
    C—185 to 213 centimeters (72.8 to 83.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # LG74098