IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Washtenaw
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN085004
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN085004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - KO8104
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23823
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024
  • 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: 41.2705583
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6996000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 635 feet south of the center of the
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN085—Kosciusko
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Staley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, nonacid, mesic Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Washtenaw
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Washtenaw variant
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: rise on moraine
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Illinois Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO81041
    C—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO81042
    AB1—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak very coarse platy structure; firm; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO81043
    AB2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO81044
    BTGB1—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO81045
    BTGB2—127 to 142 centimeters (50.0 to 55.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO81046
    BTGB3—142 to 163 centimeters (55.9 to 64.2 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) coarse sandy loam; single grain; loose; 1 percent faint gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO81047
    CG—163 to 188 centimeters (64.2 to 74.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # KO81048