IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Carmel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IN115003
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IN115003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - OH7503
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22537
  • 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: 38.9729889
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0090167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet south and 1640 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN115—Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Carmel
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/1975
  • 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: 8/19/1975 (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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OH75031
    B1—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; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OH75032
    B21T—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OH75033
    B22T—48 to 91 centimeters (18.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; strong subangular blocky parts to strong coarse prismatic structure; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and , moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OH75034
    CR—91 to 160 centimeters (35.8 to 63.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/4) silty clay; weak platy structure; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # OH75035