IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deputy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN143002
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN143002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IN143002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0291
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62224
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 38.6780548
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5849991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet east and 150 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Byron Nagel and B. Wingard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Deputy
  • PSC - 23 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/2006
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deputy
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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—25

    25—102

    102—152

    152—163

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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

    2

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    212

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    45

    109

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    11

    5

    18

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and fine and medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01785. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Ap2—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01786. few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt1—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine and medium distinct and 11 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 2 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, iron stains on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01787. very few iron stains surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common fine and medium distinct 10YR62 mottles; common fine and medium distinct 10YR63 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233309; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233310; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233309; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233310
    2Bt2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, iron stains on all faces of peds and 15 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01788. few iron stains surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common medium distinct 10YR58 mottles; many medium prominent 10YR62 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233311; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233312; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233311; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233312
    2Bt3—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) silty clay; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01789. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; many medium 10YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233313; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233313
    Bs—91 to 99 centimeters (35.8 to 39.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P01793. base saturation sample
    Cr1—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 70 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) weathered bedrock; moderate thick platy structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01790. weathered black shale
    Cr2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); 40 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 60 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) weathered bedrock; moderate thick platy structure; very firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01791. weathered black shale
    2R—152 to 163 centimeters (59.8 to 64.2 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01792. black shale