IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Benadum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03IN099004
  • User Pedon ID: S03IN099004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0261
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15741
  • Print Date: 11/14/2024

    • 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: 41.4377778
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1206944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35 N
  • Range: 3 E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet west and 800 feet north from SE corner
  • Location Description: Marshall County, Indiana; about 1 mile southeast of the town of Bremen
  • Map Unit: Wa—Wallkill loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN099—Marshall
  • MLRA: 111—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN099—Marshall County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41086-D1—Nappanee West, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rex Brock, David Gehring, Shane McBurnett
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Thapto-Histic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Benadum
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Thapto-Histic Fluvaquents
  • PSC - 25 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium over herbaceous organic material over coprogenic material over lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    coprogenous earth

    0—48

    48—117

    117—180

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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

    1

    —

    —

    248

    —

    5

    889

    —

    155

    10.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01301; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01302; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); 70 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and 30 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) pyrophosphate extract mucky silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01303; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); black (N 2.5/0) rubbed and black (N 2.5/0) broken face and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) pyrophosphate extract muck; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01304; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa2—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face and black (N 2.5/0) rubbed and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) pyrophosphate extract muck; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01305; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa3—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face and black (N 2.5/0) rubbed and pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) pyrophosphate extract muck; weak thick platy structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01306; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Lco—117 to 163 centimeters (46.1 to 64.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and white (10YR 8/1) pyrophosphate extract coprogenous material; structureless massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01307; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Lco—163 to 180 centimeters (64.2 to 70.9 inches); 65 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and 35 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior and very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) oxidized and white (10YR 8/1) pyrophosphate extract stratified stratified coprogenous material to loamy fine sand to fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01308; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—180 to 203 centimeters (70.9 to 79.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01309; saturation when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—203 to 229 centimeters (79.9 to 90.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior loamy fine sand; structureless massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 03N01310; saturation when described; observed in pit, small