IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Carmel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN155009
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN155009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - SW8109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23629
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.7633556
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0732417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1750 feet north and 2200 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN155—Switzerland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nickell and Stephenson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Carmel
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Carmel
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # SW81091
    2BT1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81092
    2BT2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81093
    2BT3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81094
    2C—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery clay; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 3 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 33 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81095
    2CR—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); 10 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments.