IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Switzerland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IN115004
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IN115004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - OH7504
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22620
  • Print Date: 5/7/2025

    • 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: 38.8860500
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1198583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1840 feet north and 700 feet west of the center of the
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN115—Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Switzerland
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Switzerland
  • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OH75041
    B+A—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OH75042
    B2T—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 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 and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # OH75043
    A+B—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; , moist, manganese coatings; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OH75044
    B2T—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OH75045
    C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay; massive; , moist, manganese coatings and 21 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # OH75046