IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991IN119021
  • User Pedon ID: 91IN119021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0745
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63784
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.1775017
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9055557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet S and 2300 feet W of NE corner
  • Location Description: Owen County, Indiana
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN119—Owen
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul McCarter Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alvin
  • PSC - 30 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alvin
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1991 (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—30

    30—81

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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

    10

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    174

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    45

    112

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04187; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    E—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior loamy fine sand; weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04188; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    BE—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04189; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 234172; patchy - phpvsfiid 234172
    Bt1—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04190; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 234173; continuous - phpvsfiid 234173
    Bt2—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 37 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04191; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common clay bridging surface features between sand grains; continuous - phpvsfiid 234174; continuous - phpvsfiid 234175; continuous - phpvsfiid 234174; continuous - phpvsfiid 234175
    Bt3—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, skeletans on all faces of peds and 37 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04192; moist when described;. common clay bridging surface features between sand grains; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 226946; continuous - phpvsfiid 226947; continuous - phpvsfiid 226946; continuous - phpvsfiid 226947
    E/Bt4—127 to 160 centimeters (50.0 to 63.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior fine sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04193; moist when described;. 1/8 to 1/4" thick (7/5YR 4/4) loamy fine sand bands with 1" total
    C—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand, loamy fine sand; single grain, and massive; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P04194