IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977IN069001
  • User Pedon ID: S1977IN069001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - HU7701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22899
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 40.8902139
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5848000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 97 feet west and 1480 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: BcB2—Blount loam, interlobate moraines, 1 to 4 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN069—Huntington
  • 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: Lockridge and Tardy
  • 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 #: 1
  • 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 - 6/3/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: 6/3/1977 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; fine granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # HU77011
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # HU77012
    Bt2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # HU77013
    BCt—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # HU77014
    C—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # HU77015