IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IN179001
  • User Pedon ID: S1984IN179001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0900
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57166
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • 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: 40.9033318
  • Std. Longitude: -85.2755585
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 1480 feet East and 75 feet North of SW corner
  • Map Unit: DeA—Del Rey-Blount silt loams, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN179—Wells
  • 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: Travis Neely and David K. Lefforge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • 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 - 8/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—71

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    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

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    —

    256

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    0

    84

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; firm; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04812. many fine roots throughout
    Bt1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent and 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots between peds; 55 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04813; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 10YR52 mottles; few fine prominent 10YR58 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 1113643; continuous - phpvsfiid 1113643
    Bt2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; 36 percent clay; 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 55 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04814; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; common very fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 10YR52 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 1113644; patchy - phpvsfiid 1113645; continuous - phpvsfiid 1113644; patchy - phpvsfiid 1113645
    BCt—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; 34 percent clay; 11 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 37 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04815; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 10YR42 mottles; effervescence is discontinuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1113646; patchy - phpvsfiid 1113647; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1113646; patchy - phpvsfiid 1113647
    C1—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak very coarse platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 55 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04816; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on vertical faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 1113648; continuous - phpvsfiid 1113649; patchy - phpvsfiid 1113648; continuous - phpvsfiid 1113649
    C2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak very coarse platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 55 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 85P04817; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on vertical faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 1113650; continuous - phpvsfiid 1113651; patchy - phpvsfiid 1113650; continuous - phpvsfiid 1113651