IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onarga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IN129003
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IN129003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - PS7503
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22487
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024
  • 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: 37.9521444
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9767000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 1025 feet east and 180 feet north of the southwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN129—Posey
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mcwilliams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Onarga
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elston
  • Classificaton Date - 1/9/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/9/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PS75031
    A12—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PS75032
    B1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PS75033
    B21T—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PS75034
    B3—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PS75035
    C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy fine sand; very friable; 21 percent faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # PS75036