IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Switzerland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN155010
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN155010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - SW8110
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23706
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.7552639
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1405722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet west and 1450 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN155—Switzerland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nickell and Stephenson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over clayey, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Switzerland
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Switzerland
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/1981 (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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # SW81101
    BT1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # SW81102
    BT2—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81103
    BT2—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81104
    BT3—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81105
    BT4—84 to 97 centimeters (33.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, manganese coatings and 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81106
    BC—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses; 3 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81107
    C—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) clay loam; weak medium platy structure; very firm; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 10 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SW81108
    2CR—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); fragments.