IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kurtz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN071061
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN071061
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JN8061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23033
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.8615583
  • Std. Longitude: -86.0165333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 495 feet east and 2000 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN071—Jackson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nagel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kurtz
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockcastle variant
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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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    37

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    A1—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # JN80611
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # JN80612
    B1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN80613
    B21T—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN80614
    B22T—51 to 91 centimeters (20.1 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent prominent greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN80615
    B3—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 21 percent distinct gray (5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 40 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN80616
    CR—119 to 140 centimeters (46.9 to 55.1 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) silt loam; very firm; 95 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # JN80617