IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IN001004
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IN001004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - AD7904
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23100
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.5959194
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9337694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1575 feet south and 425 feet east of the northwest CORNER
  • Map Unit: BcA—Blount silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN001—Adams
  • 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: Ziegler
  • 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 #: 4
  • 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 - 10/16/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/1979 (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 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79041
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 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 21 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79042
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79043
    BCt—66 to 109 centimeters (26.0 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # AD79044
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # AD79045