IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kurtz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN143003
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN143003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IN143003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0292
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62225
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 38.6069450
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8375015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1850 feet west and 960 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: soil pit—shale study Scott
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 120—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Wingard, John Robbins, Bill Hosteter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kurtz
  • PSC - 10 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kurtz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    QUVE

    Quercus velutina

    black oak

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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

    0—15

    15—71

    94—152

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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

    22

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    213

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    0

    109

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    11

    5

    18

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. mostly leaf litter
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01794. many fine roots throughout
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01795. common fine roots throughout
    Bt1—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots between peds; 55 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01796. many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 233314; continuous - phpvsfiid 233314
    2Bt2—31 to 44 centimeters (12.2 to 17.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01797. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 10YR63 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233315; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233315
    2BC—44 to 67 centimeters (17.3 to 26.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01798. few fine roots between peds
    2C—67 to 89 centimeters (26.4 to 35.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior extremely channery silty clay loam; moderate thick platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 70 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01799. few fine roots in cracks
    2Cr1—89 to 140 centimeters (35.0 to 55.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) exterior weathered bedrock; moderate very thick platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01800. weathered shale which breaks into plates less than 6 inches in length and less than 2 inches in thickness; few fine roots in cracks
    2Cr2—140 to 160 centimeters (55.1 to 63.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) weathered bedrock; weak very thick platy structure; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01801. weathered shale which breaks into plates less than 6 inches in length and less than 2 inches in thickness