IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vertrees
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S05IN061007
  • User Pedon ID: S05IN061007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0328
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18198
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.1800000
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1047222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4E
  • Range: 4S
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN061—Harrison
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN061—Harrison County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Neyhouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vertrees
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Drainage Pattern: karst
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/16/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • 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

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    213

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    1092

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    185

    12.5

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    Ap1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—4 to 20 centimeters (1.6 to 7.9 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Bt1—20 to 31 centimeters (7.9 to 12.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) organic stains on all faces of peds and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Bt2—31 to 50 centimeters (12.2 to 19.7 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face clay; strong fine angular blocky, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 90 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Bt3—50 to 117 centimeters (19.7 to 46.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face clay; strong very fine angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots; 90 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Bt4—117 to 157 centimeters (46.1 to 61.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face stony clay; strong very fine angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots; 90 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent spherical black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Bt5—157 to 213 centimeters (61.8 to 83.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) broken face; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 90 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue.; moist when described; observed in trench