IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fincastle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN103001
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • 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: 40.6212361
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1542028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 2110 feet west and 130 north of the SE corner of section 11
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN103—Miami
  • MLRA: 111D—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Western Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-IND—Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN103—Miami County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40086-E2—Galveston, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Deal, Brock, Staley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/2022
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/2020 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Stephens, Norm
  • Air Photo ID: 60
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—28

    23—28

    28—152

    28—81

    66—66

    —28—

    —5—

    —134—

    —53—

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    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

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    —

    —

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    25

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; many (5.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # RU78121
    E—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 11 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; friable; many (5.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RU78122
    Bt1—28 to 66 centimeters (11.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RU78123. continuous - phpvsfiid 1820584; continuous - phpvsfiid 1820584
    2Bt2—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; common fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 21 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 21 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-19 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RU78125. continuous - phpvsfiid 1820587; continuous - phpvsfiid 1820587
    2BC—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few (1.0) fine roots between peds; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 4/3), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-19 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # RU78126
    2Cg—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face loam; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # RU78127