IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S02IN053001
  • User Pedon ID: S2002IN053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15824
  • 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: 40.5615556
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4846667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1975 feet south and 225 feet west from NE corner
  • Location Description: about 1 mile SW from Upland, IN
  • Map Unit: BgmB2—Blount silt loam, ground moraine, 1 to 4 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN053—Grant
  • MLRA: 111B—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Northeastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN053—Grant County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40085-E4—Roll, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Don Franzmeier, Shane McBurnett
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits over fine-loamy till
  • Landform: Mississinewa end moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 44
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

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    183 - 203

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    densic materials

    0—23

    23—183

    114—203

    183—203

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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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    —

    263

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    45

    889

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    166

    10

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) rubbed, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N05640; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05641; observed in pit, small. The field texture was silty clay loam.
    Bt2—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 35 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05642; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—74 to 114 centimeters (29.1 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 35 percent medium distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05643; observed in pit, small
    BCtk1—114 to 147 centimeters (44.9 to 57.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 35 percent medium distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, carbonate concretions on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05644; observed in pit, small
    BCtk2—147 to 183 centimeters (57.9 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; light greenish gray (10Y 7/1), moist, carbonate concretions on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05645; observed in pit, small. Field texture was clay loam.
    Cdk—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 15 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, carbonate concretions on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 02N05646; observed in pit, small. The field texture was clay loam.