IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IN169012
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IN169012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WB7512
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22463
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.7474583
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8487917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 310 feet west and 1890 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN169—Wabash

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ruesch and Landrum
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: swale on till plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Setting and Climate
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    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WB75121
    A12—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WB75122
    B21T—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WB75123
    B22T—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on horizontal faces of peds; 21 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WB75124
    B23T—76 to 165 centimeters (29.9 to 65.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on horizontal faces of peds; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WB75125
    B3—165 to 178 centimeters (65.0 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7. Lab sample # WB75126