IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rensselaer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IN087001
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IN087001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LG7701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22810
  • Print Date: 5/12/2025
  • 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: 41.6462028
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4729306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet south and 100 feet east of the center
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN087—Lagrange
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hillis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rensselaer
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rensselaer
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: swale on till plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/1977 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # LG77011
    A12—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LG77012
    B1TG—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LG77013
    B21TG—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LG77014
    B22TG—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # LG77015
    B3—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # LG77016
    C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; friable; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # LG77017