IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grayford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN137005
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN137005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - RI7905
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23384
  • 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: 39.1901861
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4224694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet west and 60 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN137—Ripley
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mc williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grayford
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grayford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1979
  • 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 Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1979 (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

    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI79051
    B21T—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI79052
    B22T—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak coarse platy structure; friable; 15 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI79053
    B23T—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI79054
    B24T—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI79055
    B25T—130 to 150 centimeters (51.2 to 59.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI79056
    B3—150 to 203 centimeters (59.1 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; 15 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # RI79057