IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Markland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990IN119013
  • User Pedon ID: 90IN119013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0433
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63479
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.1805573
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9111099
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 525 feet South and 25 feet East of Northwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN119—Owen
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul McCarter, Jr.
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Markland
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    0—20

    20—71

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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

    3

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    163

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    0

    112

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02467; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 37 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02468; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 226641; continuous - phpvsfiid 226641
    Bt2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 37 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02469; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 226642; continuous - phpvsfiid 226642
    Bt3—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02470; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; continuous - phpvsfiid 226643; continuous - phpvsfiid 226643
    BCt—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; moderate very thin platy, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02471; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226644; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226644
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay; massive; very firm; 11 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 91P02472; moist when described;. common fine and medium carbonate nodules concentrations; effervescence is continuous