IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muren
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN125027
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN125027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - PK8027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23420
  • 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: 38.4753778
  • Std. Longitude: -87.4124833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 9W
  • PLSS Details: 990 feet southwest and 665 feet southeast of the north corner of Donation 233
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN125—Pike
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kelly
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 27
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muren
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muren
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: loess hill
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/21/1980 (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

    1

    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80271
    B1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80272
    B21T—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80273
    B22T—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80274
    B3—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80275
    B3—102 to 119 centimeters (40.2 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK80276
    C—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; friable; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # PK80277