IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oshtemo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977IN085003
  • User Pedon ID: S1977IN085003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - KO7703
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22788
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 41.2329750
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9708861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1875 feet east and 300 feet north of the southwest CORNER
  • Location Description: Harrison Township
  • Map Unit: OrA—Ormas loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN085—Kosciusko
  • 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: IN085—Kosciusko County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41085-B8—Burket, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Staley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oshtemo
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2014
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oshtemo
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsin sandy and loamy outwash
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Staley
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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

    —

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    —

    0—46

    46—155

    165—190

    165—

    —-

    —46—

    —109—

    —25—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    245.6

    —

    135

    955

    —

    —

    9.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO77031
    A—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO77032
    Bt—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO77033
    E—79 to 155 centimeters (31.1 to 61.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sand; single grain; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KO77035
    Bt—79 to 155 centimeters (31.1 to 61.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KO77034
    BC—155 to 165 centimeters (61.0 to 65.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sand; single grain; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KO77036
    2C—165 to 190 centimeters (65.0 to 74.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strong effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter. Lab sample # KO77037