IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tilsit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973IN025003
  • User Pedon ID: S1973IN025003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973IN025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5305
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42552
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet north and 980 feet east of the SW corner of the NE1/4
  • Location Description: 3 miles NW of Leavenworth
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN025—Crawford
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN025—Crawford County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. W. Sanders, Bob Wingard and others in party
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from limestone and sandstone and/or residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/30/1973 (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

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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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

    5

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    210

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39888
    A/B—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39889
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39890. patchy - phpvsfiid 299877; patchy - phpvsfiid 299877
    Bt2—43 to 63 centimeters (16.9 to 24.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; thin brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and thin brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39891. patchy - phpvsfiid 299878; patchy - phpvsfiid 299879; patchy - phpvsfiid 299878; patchy - phpvsfiid 299879
    E—63 to 71 centimeters (24.8 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A39892. This layer is less than 1/2 inch thick in places and caps the heads of the prisms of the Bx1 horizon.
    Bx1—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; thin dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and thin light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and white (10YR 8/1), dry, and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39893, 40A39894. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299880; continuous - phpvsfiid 299882; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299881; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299880; continuous - phpvsfiid 299882; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299881
    Bx2—91 to 123 centimeters (35.8 to 48.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 0.1 fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; thin gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent fine weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39895. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299884; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299885; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299884; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 299885
    2Bt—123 to 156 centimeters (48.4 to 61.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 30 percent thin light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39896. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460844; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460844
    2B—156 to 181 centimeters (61.4 to 71.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 10YR 5/7 (10YR 5/7) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39897
    R—181 centimeters (71.3 inches); fragments.