IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Octagon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN181028
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN181028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WH7628
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22785
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.6477778
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8660194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 1080 feet east and 390 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN181—White

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: White and Osterholz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 28
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Octagon
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Octagon
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/1976
  • 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: 11/15/1976 (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); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WH76281
    B21T—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH76282
    B22T—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH76283
    B23T—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH76284
    C—97 to 173 centimeters (38.2 to 68.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; firm; 35 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films and 35 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # WH76285