IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hickory
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN137012
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN137012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - RI7812
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23390
  • 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: 39.1718417
  • Std. Longitude: -85.2149806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 780 feet north and 120 feet east of the center
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN137—Ripley
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mc williams and Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hickory
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hickory
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    AP—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78121
    B21T—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78122
    B22T—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on horizontal faces of peds; 3 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78123
    B23T—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on horizontal faces of peds; 3 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78124
    B24T—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78125
    C—119 to 165 centimeters (46.9 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; very firm; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 35 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # RI78126