IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weddel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990IN143003
  • User Pedon ID: 90IN143003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0452
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63495
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.6230545
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7627792
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1790 feet west and 1050 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Scott County, IN
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Nage, A. Nickell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fragic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weddel
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jennings V
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1990 (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

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    20—168

    191—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

    3

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    —

    194

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    —

    —

    —

    12

    23

    0

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02581. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 55 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02582. many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 226688; continuous - phpvsfiid 226688
    Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 37 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, skeletans and 55 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02583. many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features; few very fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226690; continuous - phpvsfiid 226689; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226690; continuous - phpvsfiid 226689
    Bt3—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, skeletans and 55 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02584. many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features; few very fine roots between peds; few fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226692; continuous - phpvsfiid 226691; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226692; continuous - phpvsfiid 226691
    2Btx—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 3 percent by volume mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02585. Surface features: Many distinct grayish brown(10YR 5/2) continuous clay films(cutans)on vertical faces of peds, and brown(10YR 5/3); common medium irregular soft masses of iron-manganese; common fine distinct 10YR62 mottles
    3Bt—99 to 168 centimeters (39.0 to 66.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 55 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02586. (39-53"); 91P2587(53-66"); many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 226693; continuous - phpvsfiid 226693
    4BC—168 to 191 centimeters (66.1 to 75.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery silty clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent and 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak thick platy, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 37 percent prominent very dark gray (N 3/0), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains in root channels and/or pores; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02588. common manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features in root channels and/or pores; common fine prominent 7.5YR56 mottles; many fine and medium distinct 5Y62 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226694; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226694
    4Cr—191 to 203 centimeters (75.2 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) weathered bedrock; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate very thick platy structure; very firm; 55 percent distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, coats on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # 91P02589. many coats surface features on rock fragments; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 226695; continuous - phpvsfiid 226695