IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fincastle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN177015
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN177015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WY7915
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23156
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.7313278
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8221500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2204 feet west and 1740 feet north of the southeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN177—Wayne

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Blank and Busch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Aeric Ochraqualfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Setting and Climate
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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WY79151
    B1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79152
    B21T—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79153
    B22T—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79154
    B23T—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79155
    B3—99 to 142 centimeters (39.0 to 55.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79156
    C—142 to 157 centimeters (55.9 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; firm; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # WY79157