IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006IN037005
  • User Pedon ID: S2006IN037005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1112
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18644
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.4598045
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6981354
  • 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: GlD3—Gilpin silt loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN037—Dubois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN037—Dubois County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marshall, Neyhouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • PSC - 17 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal gravelly colluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: toeslopwe hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower 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 90cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    abrupt textural change

    bedrock, paralithic

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    moderately coherent

    17 -

    90 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    paralithic contact

    0—17

    17—90

    50—

    90—

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    —-

    —-

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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

    8

    —

    —

    610

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    90

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04827; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—8 to 17 centimeters (3.1 to 6.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 6 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04828; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 364094; continuous - phpvsfiid 364094
    2Bt1—17 to 50 centimeters (6.7 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04829; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 364095; continuous - phpvsfiid 364096; continuous - phpvsfiid 364095; continuous - phpvsfiid 364096
    2Bt2—50 to 64 centimeters (19.7 to 25.2 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 40 percent gray (10YR 6/1) exterior very channery silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04830; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 364097; continuous - phpvsfiid 364097
    2Bt3—64 to 90 centimeters (25.2 to 35.4 inches); 50 percent gray (10YR 6/1) exterior and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments; 25 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04831; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 364098; continuous - phpvsfiid 364099; continuous - phpvsfiid 364098; continuous - phpvsfiid 364099
    2Cr—90 to 150 centimeters (35.4 to 59.1 inches); 60 percent gray (10YR 5/1) exterior and 20 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channers, parachanners; very firm; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 90 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N04832; observed in pit, small