IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pekin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN101009
  • User Pedon ID: 2016IN101002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - MT8109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23685
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.5723750
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7806333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 1450 feet west and 920 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN101—Martin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: McElrath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pekin
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/23/2015
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pekin
  • Classificaton Date - 11/12/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/1981 (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 -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    61 - 147

    - 86 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    fragipan

    0—30

    30—147

    30—178

    61—147

    —30—

    —107—

    —148—

    —86—
    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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MT81091; moist when described;
    Bt—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MT81092; moist when described;
    Btx1—61 to 99 centimeters (24.0 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MT81093; moist when described;
    Btx2—99 to 147 centimeters (39.0 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 30 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # MT81094; moist when described;
    C—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # MT81095; moist when described;