IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saranac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN001008
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN001008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - AD7808
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23039
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.6294472
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0144111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet north and 450 feet west of the southeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN001—Adams

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Farmer and Ziegler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Fluvaquentic Haplaquolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Saranac
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saranac
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1978 (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), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD78081
    A12—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD78082
    B1G—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # AD78083
    B2G—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 1 percent red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent prominent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # AD78084
    B3G—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent prominent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # AD78085
    C1G—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) clay loam; firm; 3 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # AD78086
    C2—130 to 165 centimeters (51.2 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; firm; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # AD78087