IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2017IN071001
  • User Pedon ID: 2017IN071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JN7812
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23071
  • 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: 38.8374861
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9863194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1848 feet west and 132 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • Location Description: Pond Creek tributary
  • Map Unit: StaAQ—Steff silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN071—Jackson
  • MLRA: 114A—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain, Eastern Part
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN071—Jackson County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-G8—Tampico, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Byron Nagel, Jeff MacDonald
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • 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 - Wilbur
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1978
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member of the Alluvium formation in the Quaternary group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1978 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Byron Nagel
  • 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—28

    51—165

    —28—

    —114—
    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

    —

    —

    174

    —

    1172

    —

    180

    11.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    IN7923

    Seymour 2 N

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JN78121; moist when described;
    BA—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 3 percent distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78122; moist when described;
    Bw1—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 35 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats in root channels and/or pores; 21 percent prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78123; moist when described;
    Bw2—74 to 165 centimeters (29.1 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; friable; 35 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78124; moist when described;
    C1—165 to 183 centimeters (65.0 to 72.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 3 percent prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 35 percent prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78125; moist when described;
    C2—183 to 198 centimeters (72.0 to 78.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 3 percent prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # JN78126; moist when described;