IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otwell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN125026
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN125026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - PK8026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23430
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.4622528
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3736722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 1000 feet west of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN125—Pike

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Neyhouse and Kelly
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 26
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwell
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwell
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/1980 (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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    35

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80261
    B1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PK80262
    BT1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80263
    BT2—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80264
    BT3—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80265
    BT4—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses and 3 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; 15 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80266
    BT5—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses and 21 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 15 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # PK80267
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 21 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # PK80268