IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006IN037001
  • User Pedon ID: S2006IN037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1108
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18640
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.4605293
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7002792
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: SW1/4 SW1/4 Section 1, T1S, R3W Dubois County, Indiana SIPAC
  • Map Unit: WeC2—Wellston silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN037—Dubois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN037—Dubois County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Neyhouse, Wade, Owens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fragiaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Apalona
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: summit hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone and shale at 134cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Neyhouse, Wade, Owens
  • Air Photo ID: SS18
  • 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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    92 - 134

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragic soil properties

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—92

    65—92

    65—

    92—134

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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

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    640

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    90

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    Ap1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04800; observed in trench
    Ap2—12 to 20 centimeters (4.7 to 7.9 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04800
    Bt1—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04801. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364068; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364068
    Bt2—45 to 65 centimeters (17.7 to 25.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 10 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silt coats on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04802. continuous - phpvsfiid 364069; continuous - phpvsfiid 364070; continuous - phpvsfiid 364071; continuous - phpvsfiid 364072; continuous - phpvsfiid 364069; continuous - phpvsfiid 364070; continuous - phpvsfiid 364071; continuous - phpvsfiid 364072
    Btx—65 to 134 centimeters (25.6 to 52.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 25 percent medium irregular gray (10YR 6/1) clay depletions between peds; 10 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented ? to 50-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04803. continuous - phpvsfiid 364073; continuous - phpvsfiid 364073
    R—92 to 134 centimeters (36.2 to 52.8 inches); bedrock; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04806
    2Btb—134 to 145 centimeters (52.8 to 57.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 60 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 25 percent medium irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay depletions between peds; 25 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented ? to 30-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, bromcresol green. Lab sample # 06N04804. continuous - phpvsfiid 364074; continuous - phpvsfiid 364074