IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spickert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990IN143004
  • User Pedon ID: 90IN143004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0453
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 38.5688896
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8313904
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet west and 2350 feet south of the northeast 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: B. Nagel, A. Nickell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spickert
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1990
  • 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: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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 - 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

    fragipan

    lithic contact

    0—15

    25—124

    71—104

    142—142

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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

    7

    —

    —

    282

    —

    270

    109

    —

    —

    12

    23

    0

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    —

    —

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02591. common medium and coarse roots throughout; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    E—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 very coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02592. few very coarse roots throughout; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    BE—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); 40 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02593. few medium and coarse roots throughout; few very coarse roots throughout
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium and coarse roots between peds; 55 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02594. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium and coarse roots between peds; many very fine and fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 226696; continuous - phpvsfiid 226696
    Bt2—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium and coarse roots between peds; 55 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02595. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium and coarse roots between peds; many very fine and fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 226697; continuous - phpvsfiid 226697
    Bt3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very coarse roots between peds and 0.5 medium and coarse roots between peds; 37 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, skeletans; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02596. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many skeletans (sand or silt) surface features; few medium and coarse roots between peds; few very coarse roots between peds; few fine distinct 10YR63 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226698; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226698
    2Btx1—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium and 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 37 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02597. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; few fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 234053; continuous - phpvsfiid 234053
    2Btx2—104 to 124 centimeters (40.9 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse and very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 15 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02598. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine prominent 5YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 234054; continuous - phpvsfiid 234054
    2BC—124 to 142 centimeters (48.8 to 55.9 inches); firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02599
    2R—142 to 152 centimeters (55.9 to 59.8 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. No sample