IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974IN091004
  • User Pedon ID: 1974IN091004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LP7404
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22452
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 41.6760000
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8775639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet west and 1620 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN091—La Porte

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Furr and Smallwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flat on till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1974 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # LP74041
    B21TG—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # LP74042
    B22TG—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, silt coats in root channels and/or pores and 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct gray (5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74043
    C1G—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, sand coats and 70 percent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 8 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74044
    C2G—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 21 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 8 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # LP74045