IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974IN091005
  • User Pedon ID: 1974IN091005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LP7405
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22453
  • 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: 41.7376583
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7416306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 820 feet west and 220 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN091—La Porte

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Furr and Smallwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1974
  • 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: 10/22/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # LP74051
    B21T—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74052
    B22T—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent gray (N 6/0), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74053
    B23T—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74054
    B24T—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct gray (N 6/0), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74055
    C—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 70 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, sand coats; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # LP74056