IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ragsdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN031008
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN031008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DC7608
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22461
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.4088667
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4765167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet east and 430 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN031—Decatur

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shively and Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ragsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/1976 (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
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    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # DC76081
    B21TG—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silt loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC76082
    B22TG—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 3 percent distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC76083
    B23TG—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds and 70 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC76084
    B3TG—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent gray (5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC76085
    C—127 to 173 centimeters (50.0 to 68.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; massive; firm; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # DC76086