IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN109004
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN109004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - MR7604
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22725
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 39.3528056
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4207389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 530 feet west and 270 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN109—Morgan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sturm and Kluess
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1976
  • 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: 8/12/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MR76041
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76042
    B21T—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76043
    B22T—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76044
    B3—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76045
    C—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) channery silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films and 35 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 60 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76046
    R—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); 7.5Y 6/8 (7.5Y 6/8) bedrock; fragments.