IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wawaka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005IN159006
  • User Pedon ID: S2005IN159006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 40.3956389
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9663333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 33
  • Map Unit: SaC2—Sisson-Strawn complex, 6 to 12 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-loamy, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Strawn
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1989
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wawaka
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciofluvial deposits and/or outwash and/or till
  • Landscape: Wisconsin till plain
  • Landform: ice margin fan on loamy washboard ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper 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: 11/9/2005 (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 - sunny
  • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

    noncoherent

    137 - 203

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—32

    44—140

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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

    6

    282

    5

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed stratified stratified loam; 5 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 314547; continuous - phpvsfiid 314547
    Bt—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 314548; continuous - phpvsfiid 314548
    Bt2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 30 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium distinct spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 314549; continuous - phpvsfiid 314549
    2Bt3—66 to 98 centimeters (26.0 to 38.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct cylindrical very weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 314550; continuous - phpvsfiid 314551; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 314550; continuous - phpvsfiid 314551
    2Bt4—98 to 137 centimeters (38.6 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 314554; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 314554
    3Ct—137 to 203 centimeters (53.9 to 79.9 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) broken face stratified stratified sand; structureless single grain; very friable; 1.0 very coarse roots throughout; 1 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 314555; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 314555