IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fincastle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001IN005001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001IN005001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0077
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13822
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.2538147
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7941895
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 6
  • Location Description: Robert Finkle Farm
  • Map Unit: FdbA—Fincastle silt loam, New Castle Till Plain, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN005—Bartholomew
  • MLRA: 111A—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Central Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-IND—Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN005—Bartholomew County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39085-C7—Hope, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bill Hosteter, Mike Wigginton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2022
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over loamy wisconsin till
  • Landform: Wisconsin till plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/4/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Elevation: 682
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    105 - 140

    - 35 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic materials

    0—25

    25—105

    86—86

    105—140

    —25—

    —80—

    —-

    —35—
    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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    664

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00143; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses throughout and 25 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay depletions on faces of peds and 35 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00144; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt2—38 to 60 centimeters (15.0 to 23.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses throughout and 20 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 35 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00145; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234993; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234993
    Bt3—60 to 86 centimeters (23.6 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses throughout and 25 percent medium prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00146; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234994; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234994
    2Bt4—86 to 105 centimeters (33.9 to 41.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses throughout and 25 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent by volume mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00147; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234995; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234995
    2Cd—105 to 140 centimeters (41.3 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; structureless massive; very firm; 25 percent distinct carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 9 percent by volume mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3. Lab sample # 02N00148; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234996; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234996