IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chalmers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984IN157099
  • User Pedon ID: 1984IN157099
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - TI8499
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23848
  • 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: 40.4761278
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0067528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1625 feet west and 100 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN157—Tippecanoe

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mc ghee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Haplaquolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 99
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chalmers
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chalmers
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flat on till plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/26/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • 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 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TI84991
    BG1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # TI84992
    BG2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # TI84993
    BG3—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TI84994
    BC—94 to 114 centimeters (37.0 to 44.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # TI84995
    C—114 to 119 centimeters (44.9 to 46.9 inches); loam; massive; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1. Lab sample # TI84996