IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Medora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005IN143001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005IN143001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0340
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18210
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.6383324
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7633362
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN143—Scott County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dena Marshall and Genny Mosher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Medora
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: crevasse filling
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/2005 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01330; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01331; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01332; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 65 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01333; observed in pit, small
    Btx1—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face silt loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 65 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, and brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01334; observed in pit, small
    2Btx2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 65 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent distinct pinkish gray (5YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01335; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—152 to 211 centimeters (59.8 to 83.1 inches); 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct pinkish gray (5YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 65 percent distinct gray (7.5YR 5/1), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01336; observed in auger, bucket
    2Bt2—211 to 272 centimeters (83.1 to 107.1 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 65 percent distinct gray (7.5YR 5/1), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01337; observed in auger, bucket
    2Bt3—272 to 330 centimeters (107.1 to 129.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 65 percent distinct gray (7.5YR 5/1), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01338; observed in auger, bucket