IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatatuck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002IN079001
  • User Pedon ID: S2002IN079001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0462
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15361
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.0413895
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5350037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 950 feet south and 2000 feet west of the northeast corner of
  • Location Description: About 1 mile west of Butlerville in a walnut plantation of the agroforesty experiment site of the Southwest Purdue Argriculture Center. Nw 1/4 of the NW 1/4
  • Map Unit: PaB2—Parke silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN079—Jennings
  • MLRA: 114A—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain, Eastern Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN079—Jennings County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39085-A5—Butlerville, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dena Marshall and Byron Nagel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fragic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatatuck
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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—20

    20—277

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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

    4

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    231

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N02128
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organoargillans on surfaces along root channels and 10 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organoargillans on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N02129
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent fine faint irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02130
    Bt—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine roots between peds and fine roots between peds; 10 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent fine distinct irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02131, 03N02132
    2Btx—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; very fine roots between peds and fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent fine distinct irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02131, 03N02132
    2Bt3—91 to 124 centimeters (35.8 to 48.8 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam, silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 very fine roots between peds; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 10 percent fine distinct irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02133, 03N02134
    3Bt4—124 to 165 centimeters (48.8 to 65.0 inches); 80 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam, silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 10 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02135, 03N02136
    3Bt5—165 to 226 centimeters (65.0 to 89.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4) and brown (7.5YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 10 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on surfaces along pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02137
    3Bt6—226 to 277 centimeters (89.0 to 109.1 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments.