IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scottsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005IN079003
  • User Pedon ID: S2005IN079003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • 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: 38.9447222
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6148167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN079—Jennings

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Genny Mosher and Dena Marshall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Scottsburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, acid at 205cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AS39
  • 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 - 28
    • 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

    6

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    213

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    1080

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    185

    12

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    BA—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—20 to 34 centimeters (7.9 to 13.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent spherical dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt2—34 to 51 centimeters (13.4 to 20.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Btx1—51 to 85 centimeters (20.1 to 33.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, and white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 65 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Btx2—85 to 110 centimeters (33.5 to 43.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat weakly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Bt1—110 to 155 centimeters (43.3 to 61.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; white (10YR 8/1), dry, barite crystals; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Bt2—155 to 171 centimeters (61.0 to 67.3 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face silty clay; weak thick platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 65 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2BCt—171 to 205 centimeters (67.3 to 80.7 inches); 60 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face and 20 percent light gray (N 7/0) broken face and 20 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face parachannery silty clay; weak thick platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent gray (N 6/0), moist, clay films; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Cr—205 to 224 centimeters (80.7 to 88.2 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) broken face; 35 percent manganese coatings around rock fragments; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue.; moist when described; observed in trench