IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ebal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09IN147002
  • User Pedon ID: S09IN147002
  • 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: 38.0108000
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8648167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 OF NW 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN147—Spencer
  • MLRA: 120B—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Northwestern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN147—Spencer County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38086-A7—Fulda, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Norwood, G. Struben, G. Helt, R. Neilson, D.Marshall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ebal
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 89cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/2009 (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

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    89 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—12

    19—89

    89—

    12—-

    70—-

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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

    14

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    —

    —

    —

    113

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    Oa—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky highly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 12 centimeters (1.2 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    E—12 to 19 centimeters (4.7 to 7.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—19 to 56 centimeters (7.5 to 22.0 inches); 70 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; light gray (10YR 7/1) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); 80 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and 20 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; light gray (10YR 7/1) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—89 to 140 centimeters (35.0 to 55.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small