IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN119020
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN119020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0919
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62852
  • Print Date: 1/28/2025

    • 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: 39.3416672
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9194412
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet S and 1600 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN119—Owen
  • MLRA: 120—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul McCarter, Jr. and Jerry Shively
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1989 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—58

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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

    16

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    90

    112

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; very fine and fine tubular and very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P05500. many fine roots throughout
    Bt1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots between peds; very fine and fine tubular and very fine and fine interstitial pores; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P05501. common fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 225825; continuous - phpvsfiid 225825
    Bt2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots between peds; very fine and fine vesicular and very fine and fine tubular pores; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P05502. common fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 225826; continuous - phpvsfiid 225826
    Bt3—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots between peds; very fine and fine vesicular and very fine and fine tubular pores; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, skeletans over cutans on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P05503. few fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 225827; continuous - phpvsfiid 225827
    2Bt4—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine and fine vesicular and very fine and fine tubular pores; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P05504. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225829; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225829
    3BC—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) channery loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P05505
    3C—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) channery clay loam; massive; friable; 20 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P05506
    3C—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P05506. soft shale with thin layers of hard sandstone