IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maumee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: thin mollic epipedon
  • User Site ID: S1976IN127012
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IN127012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - PR7612
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22756
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.2619750
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0250167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 160 feet east and 700 feet north of the southwest CORNER
  • Location Description: Pleasant Township
  • Map Unit: Mm—Maumee loamy sand
  • 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: Brock and Bauer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maumee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2017
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maumee
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan sandy outwash
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Pattern: artificial
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Brock and Bauer
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    endosaturation

    mollic epipedon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    free carbonates

    —

    0—25

    25—155

    25—81

    25—178

    58—178

    155—178

    —-

    —25—

    —130—

    —56—

    —153—

    —120—

    —23—
    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

    —

    —

    201.1

    —

    983

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    —

    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PR76121
    A—25 to 58 centimeters (9.8 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PR76122
    Cg1—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; single grain; very friable; 1 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PR76123
    Cg2—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PR76124
    Cg3—97 to 155 centimeters (38.2 to 61.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PR76125
    Cg4—155 to 178 centimeters (61.0 to 70.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # PR76126