IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955IN003014
  • User Pedon ID: S1955IN003014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955IN003014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5238
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42485
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.9614105
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9663162
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Allen County, Indiana. The sample site is 235 feet south, 205 feet north of center of north side of Sec. 20.
  • Map Unit: BgmA—Blount silt loam, ground moraine, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN003—Allen
  • MLRA: 111B—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN003—Allen County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James V. Anderson
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 3/18/2013
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site changed from MLRA11_Indianapolis to MLRA12_Amherst

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AVENA

    Avena

    oat

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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
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 21 percent brown (10YR 5/3) distinct mottles; weak very fine granular structure; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A39370
    Bt1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A39371
    Bt2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium faint mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A39372
    Bt3—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A39373. Field texture was silty clay
    C—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay loam; 21 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 40A39374. Field texture was silty clay; Field texture was silty clay loam.