IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tuscola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005IN159001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005IN159001
  • User Site Association ID: Tipton Till PlainCentral Till Plain
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 40.3791056
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9557119
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 3
  • Map Unit: TuB2—Tuscola, till substratum-Strawn complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN159—Tipton
  • MLRA: 111A—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Central Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN159—Tipton County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40085-D8—Greentown, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stephens, Norm; McAninch, Ryan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuscola
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1989
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuscola
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fluvial silts silty glaciofluvial deposits derived from sedimentary rock over stratified sand loamy outwash derived from sedimentary rock over friable loamy till derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: Wisconsin till plain
  • Landform: loamy terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    moderately coherent

    129 - 203

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—17

    34—116

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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

    2

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    250

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    5

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) crushed stratified stratified silt loam; 10 percent clay; strong fine granular, and strong medium granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2BA—17 to 34 centimeters (6.7 to 13.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face stratified stratified loam; 22 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 50 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—34 to 46 centimeters (13.4 to 18.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face clay loam; 26 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 55 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—46 to 73 centimeters (18.1 to 28.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 3 percent medium prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, reduced matrix and 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—73 to 116 centimeters (28.7 to 45.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 1 percent medium prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, reduced matrix and 25 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2BC—116 to 129 centimeters (45.7 to 50.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent medium distinct cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, reduced matrix with clear boundaries and 3 percent medium distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3CB—129 to 139 centimeters (50.8 to 54.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face sandy loam; very firm; 1 percent medium distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3C—139 to 200 centimeters (54.7 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face loam; extremely firm; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded noncoherent cemented basalt fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded noncoherent cemented granite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded noncoherent cemented chert fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small