IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Riddles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974IN099004
  • User Pedon ID: 1974IN099004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - MS7404
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22604
  • User Project ID: 2024GRR008
  • Project Name: EVAL - MLRA 98 - Riddles sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • 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: 41.2314750
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4238750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: SW of SW of SW; 200 feet east and 300 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Union Township: 200 ft E and 300 ft N of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: OndA—Owosso sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN099—Marshall
  • 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: IN099—Marshall County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41086-B4—Culver, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Benton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Riddles
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Riddles
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: rise on moraine
  • 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: Wisconsin 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: 7/11/1974 (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

    3

    —

    —

    240.6

    —

    293

    981

    —

    169

    9.6

    21.6

    -3.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    127482

    Rochester

    NWS COOP
    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MS74041
    B1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MS74042
    B21T—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS74043
    B22T—61 to 122 centimeters (24.0 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MS74044
    C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; massive; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # MS74045