IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rahm
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005IN061003
  • User Pedon ID: S2005IN061003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0324
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18194
  • 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: 38.0005569
  • Std. Longitude: -86.0147247
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4E
  • Range: 6S
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN061—Harrison
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN061—Harrison County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Neyhouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rahm
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood-plain step
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • 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

    2

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    126

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    1092

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    170

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    Ap1—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 20 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds and 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 06N01231; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—16 to 26 centimeters (6.3 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 06N01232; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—26 to 43 centimeters (10.2 to 16.9 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 06N01233; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); 60 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face and 40 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 06N01234; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); 55 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 45 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 06N01235; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw4—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); 55 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 45 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 06N01236; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btb1—97 to 150 centimeters (38.2 to 59.1 inches); 70 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 06N01237; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btb2—150 to 203 centimeters (59.1 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, manganese masses in matrix; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 06N01238, 06N01239; moist when described; observed in pit, small