IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seward
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974IN091006
  • User Pedon ID: 1974IN091006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LP7406
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22610
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.6848222
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7922278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet east and 1920 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN091—La Porte

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Furr and Smallwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Seward
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Seward
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1974 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # LP74061
    B1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; weak fine granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74062
    B21T—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films between sand grains; 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74063
    B22T—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules and 1 percent distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74064
    B23TG—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules and 21 percent distinct light greenish gray (5GY 7/1), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP74065
    C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, sand coats; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent distinct greenish gray (5G 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # LP74066