IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zanesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN119007
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN119007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IN119007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61113
  • 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: 39.3430557
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9194412
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet north and 1350 feet east of southwest corner
  • Location Description: Owen County, IN
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN119—Owen
  • MLRA: 120—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P. McCarter, Jr.
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Fragiudalfs
  • PSC - 8 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    8—61

    30—56

    66—0

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    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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    219

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    45

    43

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    12

    5

    18

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00050; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 2 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00051; moist when described;. very few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223684; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223684
    Bt2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P00052; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223685; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223685
    Bt3—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 2.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00053; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 223686; continuous - phpvsfiid 223686
    Btx1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; strong coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P00054; moist when described;. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 223687; continuous - phpvsfiid 223687
    Btx2—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00055; dry when described;. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few very fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; many fine distinct 10YR62 mottles
    Btx2—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) skeletans on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00056; dry when described;. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 223688; continuous - phpvsfiid 223689; continuous - phpvsfiid 223688; continuous - phpvsfiid 223689
    2Btx3—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1) clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) skeletans on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00057; dry when described;. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 223690; continuous - phpvsfiid 223691; continuous - phpvsfiid 223690; continuous - phpvsfiid 223691
    3Bt4—140 to 157 centimeters (55.1 to 61.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery clay loam; 11 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00058; dry when described;. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine distinct 10YR63 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 223692; continuous - phpvsfiid 223692
    3Cr—157 to 168 centimeters (61.8 to 66.1 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) very channery silty clay loam; massive; firm; 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;