IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN143001
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN143001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IN143001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0290
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62223
  • 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: 38.6775017
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5855560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1040 feet east and 480 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Kent Quadrangle
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Hosteter, K. McWilliams, and D. Franzmeier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • PSC - 13 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1989 (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

    FEAR3

    Festuca arundinacea

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—36

    51—137

    137—147

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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

    11

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    207

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    135

    109

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    11

    5

    18

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 85 percent brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01778. common fine roots throughout
    2Bt—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 medium and coarse roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01779. rock fragments are black shale; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; many medium and coarse roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233307; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233307
    2BCt—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) channery silty clay loam; 11 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 2 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01780. rock fragments are black shale; very few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 10YR72 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233308; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233308
    Bs—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P01784. satelite sample for base saturation
    2Cr1—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior weathered bedrock; moderate thick platy structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01781. weathered black shale
    2Cr2—74 to 137 centimeters (29.1 to 53.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior weathered bedrock; moderate thick platy structure; very firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01782. weathered black shale
    2R—137 to 147 centimeters (53.9 to 57.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) unweathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01783. fissile black shale