IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Varna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN181029
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN181029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WH7629
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22849
  • 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: 40.6546972
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0515444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 620 feet south and 400 feet west of the center
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN181—White

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Langlois and Osterholz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 29
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Varna
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Varna
  • 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: moderately 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 - close-grown 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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WH76291
    B21T—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH76292
    B22T—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH76293
    B23T—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 21 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH76294
    C—94 to 178 centimeters (37.0 to 70.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; massive; firm; 35 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films and 35 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5. Lab sample # WH76295