IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bedford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN093007
  • User Pedon ID: 2015IN093003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - LW7807
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23337
  • 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: 38.9325972
  • Std. Longitude: -86.5598972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet west and 200 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN093—Lawrence

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kempf and Noble
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2015
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/1978 (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 -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    53 - 99

    - 46 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—18

    18—99

    53—99

    53—99

    99—203

    —18—

    —81—

    —46—

    —46—

    —104—
    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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; many (7.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # LW78071; moist when described;
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many (7.0) fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LW78072; moist when described;
    Bt2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LW78073; moist when described;
    Btx1—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 7 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 7 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LW78074; moist when described;
    Btx2—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 7 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # LW78075; moist when described;
    2BC—99 to 203 centimeters (39.0 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 10 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine prominent irregular mottles; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent distinct red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume , 10 percent by weight nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # LW78076; moist when described;