IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004IN053-001
  • User Pedon ID: S2004IN053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1158
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16737
  • 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: 40.4948616
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7336121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24 N
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 110 feet north and 1168 feet west of southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 4.5 miles east of Swayzee, IN
  • Map Unit: BgmA—Blount silt loam, ground moraine, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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-D6—Fairmount, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. McBurnett, R. Neilson, G. Mosher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landform: Union City ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 34
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

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    55 - 203

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    densic materials

    calcic horizon

    0—26

    26—94

    55—203

    55—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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    90

    889

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    165

    10.5

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    Ap1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) rubbed, dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06717; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—11 to 26 centimeters (4.3 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) rubbed, dry; silt loam; weak thick platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06718; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—26 to 36 centimeters (10.2 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 25 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N06719; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 55 centimeters (14.2 to 21.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 80 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 18 percent medium prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 25 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent fine prominent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N06720; observed in pit, small
    BCdtk—55 to 94 centimeters (21.7 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior clay loam; weak thick platy parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N06721; observed in pit, small
    Cdk1—94 to 130 centimeters (37.0 to 51.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior clay loam; weak thick platy parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 40 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds and 80 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N06722; observed in pit, small
    Cdk2—130 to 203 centimeters (51.2 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very friable; 30 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds and 80 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 04N06723; observed in pit, small