IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN143012
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN143012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IN143012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61974
  • Print Date: 4/5/2025

    • 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: 38.5855560
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8416672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet W and 1550 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Scott County, IN.
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 120—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Byron Nagel and Randy Braun
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownstown
  • PSC - 25 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1989
  • 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
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1989 (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

    ACSA2

    FAGR

    QURU

    Acer saccharinum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    silver maple

    American beech

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—43

    89—89

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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

    48

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    280

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    135

    109

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    12

    23

    0

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    E—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 90 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 5.5 medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P00236; dry when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout; many medium roots throughout
    Bw—16 to 46 centimeters (6.3 to 18.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 coarse roots between peds; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P00237; dry when described;. few very fine and fine roots between peds; few coarse roots between peds
    BC—46 to 92 centimeters (18.1 to 36.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium roots between peds; 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P00238; dry when described;. few very fine and fine roots between peds; few medium roots between peds
    R—92 to 117 centimeters (36.2 to 46.1 inches); unweathered bedrock; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 90P00239. few very fine and fine roots in cracks