IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nappanee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN001007
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN001007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - AD7907
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23227
  • 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: 40.8781056
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9369806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 675 feet north and 350 feet east of the southwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN001—Adams
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ziegler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Ochraqualfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nappanee
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nappanee
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: rise on moraine
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/1979 (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

    2

    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79071
    B21T—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79072
    B22T—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79073
    B23T—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79074
    B3T—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79075
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, carbonate coats on faces of peds; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent prominent gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # AD79076