IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maumee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IN073038
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IN073038
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JR7938
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23262
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.2285500
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0520083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet south and 1900 feet west of the northeast CORNER
  • Location Description: Wheatfield Township
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN073—Jasper
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41087-B1—Wheatfield, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Smallwood and Hunt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 38
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maumee
  • PSC - 28 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2017
  • Classifier - Matt Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Prochaska
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - corn
  • 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: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Smallwood and Hunt
  • 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

    reduced matrix

    aquic conditions

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    0—38

    38—152

    38—152

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    —38—

    —114—

    —114—
    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

    0

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    —

    —

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    982

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JR79381
    A—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JR79382
    Cg1—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loamy sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JR79383
    Cg2—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4. Lab sample # JR79384
    Cg3—109 to 135 centimeters (42.9 to 53.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # JR79385
    Cg4—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # JR79386