IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wrayston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990IN143005
  • User Pedon ID: 90IN143005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990IN143005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0454
  • 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: 38.5663872
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8244476
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 850 feet east and 1900 feet north of the southwest 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 Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wrayston
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalf
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: 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
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CORNU

    Cornus

    dogwood

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    28—84

    109—152

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    13

    302

    270

    109

    12

    23

    0

    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. No sample
    A—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 85 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P2600. few very coarse roots throughout; common medium and coarse roots throughout
    BE—16 to 31 centimeters (6.3 to 12.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 very coarse roots throughout; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P2601. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very coarse roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 234055; patchy - phpvsfiid 234055
    Bt1—31 to 64 centimeters (12.2 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 very coarse roots throughout; 55 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P2602. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; few very coarse roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 234056; continuous - phpvsfiid 234056
    2Bt2—64 to 87 centimeters (25.2 to 34.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 2.5 medium roots between peds; 37 percent distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on rock fragments and 55 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron stains on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P2603. common clay films surface features on rock fragments; many iron stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; common medium roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234057; continuous - phpvsfiid 234058; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234057; continuous - phpvsfiid 234058
    2CB—87 to 112 centimeters (34.3 to 44.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) channery silt loam; moderate very thick platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron stains on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 65 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P2604. common clay films surface features on rock fragments; few very fine and fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234059; continuous - phpvsfiid 234060; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234059; continuous - phpvsfiid 234060
    2R—112 to 155 centimeters (44.1 to 61.0 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. No sample