IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otwell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN071024
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN071024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JN7924
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23429
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 38.8024750
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8479694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet west and 500 feet north of the center
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN071—Jackson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nagel and Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwell
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/1977
  • 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: 5/12/1977 (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
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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JN79241
    B2T—18 to 51 centimeters (7.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 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 # JN79242
    BX1—51 to 119 centimeters (20.1 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN79243
    BX2—119 to 147 centimeters (46.9 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 21 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN79244
    B3—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # JN79245