IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2017IN071003
  • User Pedon ID: 2017IN071003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JN8016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23573
  • 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: 39.0301500
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2737417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet west and 1075 feet north of the center of section
  • Location Description: South Fork of Salt River
  • Map Unit: StaAH—Steff silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded, brief duration
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN071—Jackson
  • 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: IN071—Jackson County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Byron Nagel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • 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 - 3/28/2017
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Steff
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Classifier - Byron Nagel
  • 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
  • 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: 3/28/2017 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Steve Neyhouse
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • 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

    0—18

    —18—
    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

    —

    —

    167

    —

    1172

    —

    180

    11.4

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    IN7923

    Seymour 2 N

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JN80161; moist when described;
    C1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # JN80162; moist when described;
    C2—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented reddish yellow (5YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 22 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN80163; moist when described;
    C3—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine faint irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 21 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # JN80164; moist when described;