IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cobbsfork
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN137002
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN137002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - RI7802
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22916
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024
  • 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: 39.3090528
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1517806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 180 feet south and 30 feet west of the northeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN137—Ripley
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mcwilliams and Shadis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Ochraquults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cobbsfork
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clermont variant
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1977 (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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, manganese coatings and 1 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78021
    A2G—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak coarse platy structure; friable; 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, manganese coatings and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78022
    B21TG—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78023
    B22TG—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # RI78024
    BX1—91 to 142 centimeters (35.8 to 55.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # RI78025
    BX2—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # RI78026