IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tracy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970IN127001
  • User Pedon ID: S1970IN127001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5298
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42545
  • User Project ID: 2021GRR001
  • Project Name: EVAL - MLRA 98 - Tracy sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.3674167
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0356083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 708 feet south and 280 feet east of the center
  • Location Description: Leslie LaCount farm
  • Map Unit: TcA—Tracy sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN127—Porter
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN127—Porter County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41087-C1—Kouts, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Persinger, Dideriksen, Franzmeier, Sanders
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tracy (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2021
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tracy (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: shaly loamy outwash over shaly sand and gravel outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Pattern: artificial
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F098XA014MI Dry Sandy Drift Plains Feb 8 2021 Matt Bromley

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/3/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Persinger, Dideriksen, Franzmeier, Sanders
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    13—23

    33—152

    152—203

    —23—

    —10—

    —119—

    —51—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    214.6

    —

    1037

    —

    188

    9.9

    21.9

    -3.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    124837

    Laporte

    NWS COOP
    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39817
    E—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; thin sand coats on faces of peds; 1 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts; 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39818
    Bt1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; thin sand coats on faces of peds and thin brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and thin brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts; 1 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39819. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793163; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793164; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793163; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793164
    Bt2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) coarse sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; thin clay films on surfaces along pores and thin clay films on faces of peds and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) organic stains on faces of peds; 7 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39820
    Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) coarse sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) organic stains on faces of peds and thin clay films on surfaces along pores and thin clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat 20-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 7 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39821
    Bt4—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) coarse sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; thin brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and thin brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on surfaces along pores and brown (7.5YR 5/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) organic stains on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39822. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793171; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793172; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793171; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793172
    Bt5—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) stratified stratified gravelly loamy sand to gravelly sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; thin dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39823. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793174; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1793174
    C13—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A39826
    C12—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) coarse sandy loam; single grain; loose; 3 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A39825
    C11—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent by volume flat 2-?-5 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A39824