IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sleeth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005IN159005
  • User Pedon ID: S2005IN159005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0671
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18976
  • 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: 40.3362236
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9187241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 23
  • Map Unit: DeA—Del Rey, sandy substratum-Crosby silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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-D7—Point Isabel, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stephens, Norm; McAninch, Ryan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sleeth
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 35 to 85 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial fluvial deposit
  • Landscape: Wisconsin till plain
  • Landform: loamy washboard ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

    noncoherent

    116 - 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—22

    35—85

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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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    260

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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) crushed silt loam; 7 percent clay; friable; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 80 percent distinct dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N02820; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 339005; continuous - phpvsfiid 339005
    E—22 to 35 centimeters (8.7 to 13.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face silt loam; 5 percent clay; friable; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium prominent spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N02821; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—35 to 62 centimeters (13.8 to 24.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; friable; 80 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 80 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N02822; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339006; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339006
    Bt2—62 to 78 centimeters (24.4 to 30.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; firm; 60 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium prominent spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 60 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N02823; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 339007; continuous - phpvsfiid 339007
    2Bt3—78 to 98 centimeters (30.7 to 38.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face stratified stratified loam; 28 percent clay; friable; 35 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent medium prominent spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 35 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02824; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339008; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339008
    2BC—98 to 116 centimeters (38.6 to 45.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face stratified stratified loam; firm; 5 percent distinct gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay bridges on vertical faces of peds; 35 percent coarse prominent spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; flat subangular indurated 2-3-75 millimeter shale, clayey fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-5-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-5-75 millimeter chert fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02825. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339009; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339009
    3C—116 to 203 centimeters (45.7 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face stratified stratified sandy loam; loose; 20 percent medium prominent dendritic extremely weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; flat subangular indurated 2-5-10 millimeter shale, clayey fragments and nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments and nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-5-75 millimeter chert fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N02826