IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Miamian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN139012
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN139012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - RU7912
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22972
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 39.7797250
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3199472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2430 feet north and 125 feet east of the southwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN139—Rush

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brock and Dalton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Miamian
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Miami
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1979
  • 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: 8/16/1979 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # RU79121
    B21T—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # RU79122
    B22T—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # RU79123
    B3—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 7 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # RU79124
    C1—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; firm; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # RU79125
    C2—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; firm; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3. Lab sample # RU79126