IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN135049
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN135049
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - RA7949
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23103
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 40.2647889
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1198972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet north and 2500 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: GnB2—Glynwood silt loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN135—Randolph
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN135—Randolph County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 49
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/2008 (entry creation 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) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B1T—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 21 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    B21T—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and black (10YR 2/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 21 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    B22T—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    B23T—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    2B3—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    2C—97 to 203 centimeters (38.2 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; structureless massive; firm; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence.