IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IN021025
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IN021025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - CL7725
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22722
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.3904917
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9631583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet west and 1800 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN021—Clay

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mccarter and Neely
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1977 (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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77251
    A2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 35 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77252
    B21T—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77253
    B22T—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77254
    B3—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77255
    CR—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # CL77256
    R—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); stony loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # CL77257