IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Millsdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IN069007
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IN069007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - HU7707
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23219
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.8579722
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6348944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1840 feet east and 480 feet north of the southwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN069—Huntington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lockridge and Tardy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Millsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Millsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1977 (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); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # HU77071
    A12—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent distinct olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # HU77072
    B21TG—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # HU77073
    B22G—48 to 58 centimeters (18.9 to 22.8 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) silty clay loam; strong coarse platy structure; firm; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # HU77074
    R—58 to 152 centimeters (22.8 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2); massive; firm; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # HU77075