IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IN075008
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IN075008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JY7908
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23105
  • 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: 40.5435722
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8562389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 460 feet east and 370 feet north of the southwest CORNER
  • Map Unit: GsB3—Glynwood clay loam, thin solum, 2 to 6 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • 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: Hartman and Pirtle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 8
  • 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 variant
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1979
  • 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: 8/8/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JY79081
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY79082
    2Bt2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate 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 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY79083
    2BC—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JY79084
    2C—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; very firm; 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, pressure faces; 2 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # JY79085