IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Apalona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06IN037008
  • User Pedon ID: S06IN037008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18647
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 38.4600556
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6986944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T1S
  • Range: R3W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: SW1/4 SW1/4 Section 1, T1S, R3W Dubois County, Indiana SIPAC
  • Map Unit: GlD3—Gilpin silt loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN037—Dubois County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nagel, Helt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Apalona
  • PSC - 21 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Apalona
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: structural bench on hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone and shale at 183cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: SS18
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    noncoherent

    moderately coherent

    indurated

    54 - 114

    143 - 183

    183 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    fragipan

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—21

    21—143

    39—

    54—114

    54—

    143—

    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

    10

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    —

    615

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    90

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) rubbed silt loam; weak very coarse platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches); 75 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 23 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and 2 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—21 to 39 centimeters (8.3 to 15.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—39 to 54 centimeters (15.4 to 21.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 4 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses and 18 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron lining pores and 18 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btx1—54 to 96 centimeters (21.3 to 37.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats and 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 4 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses and 18 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 8 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btx2—96 to 114 centimeters (37.8 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior gravelly silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 34 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, clay films; 18 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 65 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses; 2 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—114 to 143 centimeters (44.9 to 56.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses and 15 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses and 20 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, iron depletions and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 40 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 25 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—143 to 183 centimeters (56.3 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate thick platy structure; firm; 35 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films; 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2R—183 to 185 centimeters (72.0 to 72.8 inches); extremely firm; fragments.; observed in pit, small