IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IN075007
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IN075007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JY7907
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23102
  • 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: 40.5483278
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9000333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1120 feet west and 2310 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: BlA—Blount-Glynwood, thin solum complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN075—Jay
  • 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: Evans and Hartman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2013
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1979 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JY79071
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY79072
    Bt2—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY79073
    2Bt3—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY79074
    2BC—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY79075
    2C—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; very firm; 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on faces of peds and 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, pressure faces; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # JY79076