IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Carmel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IN029006
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IN029006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DB7506
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22536
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 39.2571722
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9610583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1150 feet west and 500 feet north of the center of the
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN029—Dearborn

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders and Buller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Carmel
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 8/21/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/21/1975 (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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # DB75061
    B+A—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DB75062
    B21T—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # DB75063
    B22—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay; strong coarse subangular blocky parts to strong coarse prismatic structure; olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and , moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DB75064
    B3—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # DB75065
    CR—117 to 157 centimeters (46.1 to 61.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) silty clay; massive; very firm; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # DB75066