IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stonehead
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN143009
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN143009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0521
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62454
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.6238899
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8452759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet E and 1960 feet N of the SW corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 120—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Byron Nagel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Stonehead
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stonehead
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1989
  • 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: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1989 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    25—137

    168—203

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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

    —

    —

    —

    207

    —

    109

    —

    —

    12

    23

    0

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    E—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 80 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02948. common medium and coarse roots throughout; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    BE—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02949. common very fine and fine roots throughout; common medium and coarse roots throughout
    Bt1—25 to 58 centimeters (9.8 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 2.5 medium and coarse roots between peds; 55 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02950. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; common medium and coarse roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 225025; continuous - phpvsfiid 225025
    Bt2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 2.5 medium and coarse roots between peds; 37 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, skeletans and 55 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02951. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features; few very fine and fine roots between peds; common medium and coarse roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225026; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225026
    Bt3—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, skeletans and 55 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02952. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 225028; continuous - phpvsfiid 225028
    2Bt4—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 55 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02953. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; many medium prominent 2.5YR46 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 225030; continuous - phpvsfiid 225030
    2Bt5—104 to 124 centimeters (40.9 to 48.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silty clay; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 11 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 55 percent prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02954. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; common fine prominent 2.5YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 225031; continuous - phpvsfiid 225031
    2Bt6—124 to 137 centimeters (48.8 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 37 percent prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02955. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; few fine distinct 5YR56 mottles; many prominent 2.5Y62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 225032; continuous - phpvsfiid 225032
    2BC—137 to 168 centimeters (53.9 to 66.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very channery silty clay loam; 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate thick platy, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 50 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02956. few very fine and fine roots between peds; many fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles
    2BC1—152 centimeters (59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P02958. base saturation sample
    2Cr—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); 10 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and 90 percent olive (5Y 5/3) weathered bedrock; moderate very thick platy structure; very firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P02957