IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Digby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997IN053003
  • User Pedon ID: S1997IN053003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0253
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10524
  • 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: 40.5028038
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5977249
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 430 feet W and 2500 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Indian grass
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN053—Grant
  • MLRA: 111—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN053—Grant County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scot Haley, Bill Hosteter
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Digby
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: outwash terrace
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    84—104

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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
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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01461
    Ap2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine high-continuity tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01462
    BE—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine high-continuity tubular pores; 75 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, and 75 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01463. continuous - phpvsfiid 202813; continuous - phpvsfiid 202813
    2Bt1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine high-continuity tubular pores; 75 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01464. continuous - phpvsfiid 202815; continuous - phpvsfiid 202815
    2Bt2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 75 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01465. continuous - phpvsfiid 202816; continuous - phpvsfiid 202816
    2Bt3—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; 3 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01466. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 202817; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 202817
    3C—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly sandy loam; massive; loose; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.