IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN125005
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN125005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - PK8105
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23574
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 38.3115056
  • Std. Longitude: -87.1485139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2350 feet north and 950 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN125—Pike
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Crafton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Edited to: fine-silty, mesic fluvaquent dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Steff
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/2008
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Steff
  • Classificaton Date - 3/10/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/10/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK81051
    B21—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK81052
    B22—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK81053
    B23—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 21 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK81054
    C1—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 21 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PK81055
    C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 3 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # PK81056