IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zanesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S08IN123001
  • User Pedon ID: S08IN123001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 38.0105500
  • Std. Longitude: -86.5740694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SW 1/4, NE 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN123—Perry
  • MLRA: 120B—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Northwestern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN123—Perry County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38086-A5—Derby, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Neyhouse, Z. Rigg, D. Marshall, G.Helt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 160cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/12/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

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    very strongly coherent

    72 - 160

    160 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    lithic contact

    2—24

    24—160

    72—160

    160—

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    —-

    —-

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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

    3

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    —

    —

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    90

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); ; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    A1—2 to 10 centimeters (0.8 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bt1—24 to 48 centimeters (9.4 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt2—48 to 72 centimeters (18.9 to 28.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots in cracks; 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary.
    Btx1—72 to 109 centimeters (28.3 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; strong very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 415842; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 415844; continuous - phpvsfiid 415842; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 415844
    Btx2—109 to 133 centimeters (42.9 to 52.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; strong very coarse prismatic parts to strong very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Btx3—133 to 160 centimeters (52.4 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate coarse angular blocky, and strong very coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; light grayish olive (10Y 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-6 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2R—160 centimeters (63.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.