IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Apalona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92IN123 Apalona-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 92IN123 Apalona-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0332
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65675
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.1347778
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6630556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4 South
  • Range: 2 West
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 320 meters (1,050 feet) west and 442 meters (1,450 feet) north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: AgrB—Apalona-Zanesville silt loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN123—Perry
  • MLRA: 120B—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Northwestern Part
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN123—Perry County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38086-B6—Bristow, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Wingard and Ken McWilliams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Apalona (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/28/2000
  • Classifier - Byron Nagel
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/1992
  • Classifier - Ken McWilliams
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - fifth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 229cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, paralithic

    noncoherent

    weakly coherent

    89 - 124

    229 - 244

    - 35 -

    - 15 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragic soil properties

    fragipan

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    20—229

    64—89

    89—124

    229—

    —20—

    —209—

    —25—

    —35—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    195

    —

    180

    1092

    —

    197

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    IN128698

    Tell City

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02597
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 75 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02598
    Bt2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 75 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02599
    Bt/E—56 to 64 centimeters (22.0 to 25.2 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02600
    Bt/E—56 to 64 centimeters (22.0 to 25.2 inches); 25 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) silt loam; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02600
    Btx1—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay depletions on vertical faces of peds and 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02601
    Btx2—89 to 124 centimeters (35.0 to 48.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay depletions on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02602
    2Bt1—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 75 percent prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 25 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02603
    2Bt2—152 to 175 centimeters (59.8 to 68.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay loam; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 75 percent prominent light red (7.5R 6/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 25 percent coarse prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02604
    3BCt—175 to 229 centimeters (68.9 to 90.2 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 40 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02605
    4Cr—229 to 244 centimeters (90.2 to 96.1 inches); bedrock; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter. Lab sample # 93P02606