IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Williamstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984IN015001
  • User Pedon ID: 1984IN015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - CA8401
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23927
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 40.4594389
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6366722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 225 feet east and 440 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Carroll County
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN015—Carroll
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-IND—Indianapolis, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jenson and Braun
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Williamstown
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Williamstown
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess and/or fluvial silts over ablation and/or lodgement till.
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: rise on terminal moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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/B—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); 80 percent brown (10YR 4/3) crushed and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 7 percent sand; 72 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak coarse granular structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # CA84011
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CA84012
    2Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; 43 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 70 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CA84013. continuous - phpvsfiid 1228889; continuous - phpvsfiid 1228889
    2Bt3—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; 49 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (1.0) fine roots throughout; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent very fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented greenish black (10Y 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses between peds; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CA84014
    2BCt—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CA84015. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1228891; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1228891
    2C1—86 to 135 centimeters (33.9 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 46 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 14 percent clay; structureless extremely coarse massive; firm; 1 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CA84016
    2C2—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 44 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 16 percent clay; structureless extremely coarse massive; firm; 1 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # CA84017