IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2017IN013001
  • User Pedon ID: 2017IN013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - BR8109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23814
  • 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: 39.1066194
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1946417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1460 feet west and 25 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Middle Fork Salt Creek
  • Map Unit: Sf—Steff silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN013—Brown
  • MLRA: 120C—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN013—Brown County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39086-A2—Story, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Ziegler, Rick Noble
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Steff
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2017
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Steff
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Classifier - Tom Ziegler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: acid fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member of the Alluvium formation in the Quaternary group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/29/2017 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Steve Neyhouse
  • Air Photo ID: 44
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—74

    —25—

    —49—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    177

    —

    1141

    —

    193

    11.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    IN0784

    Bloomington IND UN

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81091; moist when described;
    Bw1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint irregular weakly coherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81092; moist when described;
    Bw2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 3 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81093; moist when described;
    Cg—74 to 119 centimeters (29.1 to 46.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 21 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81094; moist when described;
    C—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, manganese coatings with sharp boundaries on faces of peds and 21 percent coarse distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # BR81096; moist when described;