IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Medora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN071004
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN071004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JN7804
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23003
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.8992528
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8845972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1195 feet west and 1400 feet south of the center
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN071—Jackson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nagel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Medora
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parke variant
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/1978 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JN78041
    B21T—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78042
    BX1B—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions and 35 percent black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78043
    BX2B—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78044
    B22TB—114 to 145 centimeters (44.9 to 57.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak very coarse platy structure; firm; 35 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 70 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78045
    B23TB—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate very coarse platy structure; firm; 70 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78046
    B24TB—178 to 221 centimeters (70.1 to 87.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 70 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # JN78047