IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weddel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003IN019003
  • User Pedon ID: S2003IN019003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0621
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14993
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 38.5625000
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7822189
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 N
  • Range: 7 E
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Grant NO. 283
  • Map Unit: WedB2—Weddel silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN019—Clark
  • MLRA: 120—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN019—Clark County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-E7—Henryville, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Byron Nagel, Dena Marshall, George McElrath Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: forestry data site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weddel
  • PSC - 8 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blocher
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over till
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/31/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; low excavation difficulty; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02765
    BE—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; low excavation difficulty; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) organic stains on surfaces along root channels and 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) organic stains on surfaces along pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N02766
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 65 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02767
    Bt2—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); silt loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 65 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02768
    Bt3—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 65 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02769
    2Bt4—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 65 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct spherical black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout and 5 percent medium distinct spherical black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout and 12 percent medium distinct irregular iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 13 percent fine distinct irregular brown (10YR 5/3), moist, and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02770
    2Bt5—102 to 137 centimeters (40.2 to 53.9 inches); clay; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 65 percent distinct 7.5Y 4/6 (7.5Y 4/6), moist, and 7.5Y 5/2 (7.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented metamorphic, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02771. May have some contamination from horizon above from bucket augering.
    2Bt6—137 to 175 centimeters (53.9 to 68.9 inches); clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 35 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented metamorphic, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02772
    2Bt7—175 to 198 centimeters (68.9 to 78.0 inches); silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments and nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented metamorphic, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02773
    2BCt—198 to 246 centimeters (78.0 to 96.9 inches); silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 15 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented metamorphic, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02774
    2Cd—246 to 251 centimeters (96.9 to 98.8 inches); clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; high excavation difficulty; 10 percent fine distinct irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 03N02775