IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990IN119044
  • User Pedon ID: S1990IN119044
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0493
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65836
  • Print Date: 5/5/2025

    • 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: 39.1736107
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7249985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 2550 feet S and 700 feet W of the NE corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN119—Owen
  • MLRA: 120—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN119—Owen County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P. McCarter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 44
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AS-72
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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—18

    18—76

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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

    20

    76

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    213

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    225

    1118

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine and fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03651
    E—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine and fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03652
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine high-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 35 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) skeletans on vertical faces of peds; 7 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03653. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193038; continuous - phpvsfiid 193039; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193038; continuous - phpvsfiid 193039
    2Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 65 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 12 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03654. continuous - phpvsfiid 193040; continuous - phpvsfiid 193040
    3Bt3—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 65 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03655. continuous - phpvsfiid 193041; continuous - phpvsfiid 193041
    3BC—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 65 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) skeletans on vertical faces of peds; 30 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03656. continuous - phpvsfiid 193042; continuous - phpvsfiid 193042
    3C—97 to 142 centimeters (38.2 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior; massive; friable; 40 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 93P03657
    3Cr—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. no sample