IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN125004
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN125004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - PK7904
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23078
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.4775389
  • Std. Longitude: -87.2972722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet west and 950 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN125—Pike

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kelly and Neyhouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/1979
  • 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 formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/17/1979 (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
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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK79041
    B1—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK79042
    B21T—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PK79043
    B22T—56 to 97 centimeters (22.0 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PK79044
    B23T—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PK79045
    B3—127 to 185 centimeters (50.0 to 72.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PK79046
    C—185 to 224 centimeters (72.8 to 88.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # PK79047