IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976IN033002
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IN033002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DK7602
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22450
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 41.2980556
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8515583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 225 feet south and 900 feet west of the northeast corner of
  • Map Unit: BaA—Blount loam, interlobate moraines, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN033—De Kalb
  • MLRA: 111B—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jensen and Fischer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from Indiana lab data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2013
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 5/27/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/27/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # DK76021
    Bt1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 21 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK76022
    Bt2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; moderate fine angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK76023
    BC—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 35 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate coats on faces of peds; 1 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK76024
    C—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; firm; 70 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate coats on faces of peds; 1 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5. Lab sample # DK76025