IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tracy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IN091001
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN091001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LP7801
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 41.4426333
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9238667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 950 feet west and 450 feet north of the center
  • Location Description: Clinton Township
  • Map Unit: TcA—Tracy sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN091—La Porte
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN091—La Porte County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41086-D8—Wanatah, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Barnes and Guthrie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tracy
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tracy variant
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: shaly sandy and loamy outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: artificial
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F098XA014MI Dry Sandy Drift Plains Feb 8 2021 Matt Bromley

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Barnes and Guthrie
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • 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

    —

    —

    225.7

    —

    965

    —

    157

    9.3

    21.3

    -3.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    129222

    Wanatah 2 WNW

    NWS COOP
    AP—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # LP78011
    B21T—25 to 58 centimeters (9.8 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP78012
    B22T—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP78013
    B23T—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP78014
    C1—112 to 147 centimeters (44.1 to 57.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LP78015
    C2—147 to 152 centimeters (57.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # LP78016