IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sable
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006IN023089
  • User Pedon ID: TR0012006IN023SH026007
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - TRIN023SH026-Sable
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Transect Interval - 24.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0875
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79393
  • Print Date: 12/7/2025

    • 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: 40.2581167
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3233472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4, NE1/4, NE1/4
  • Map Unit: Sc—Sable-Drummer silty clay loams
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN023—Clinton
  • MLRA: 111A—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Central Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN023—Clinton County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40086-C3—Hillisburg, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stephens, Norm
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sable
  • PSC - 36 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Treaty
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial fluvial
  • Landscape: glacial fluvial till plain
  • Landform: overflow channel glacial drainage channel
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    moderately coherent

    173 - 203

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—44

    44—66

    30—44—48

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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

    0

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    282

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    26

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    Ap—0 to 36 centimeters (0.0 to 14.2 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) crushed silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N01436; observed in push tube
    A2—36 to 44 centimeters (14.2 to 17.3 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) crushed silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent faint 10YR 2.5/1 (10YR 2.5/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent cylindrical noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 550980; continuous - phpvsfiid 550980
    Btg—44 to 66 centimeters (17.3 to 26.0 inches); 29 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct black (2.5Y 2.5/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium distinct spherical very weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 550981; continuous - phpvsfiid 550981
    2CBtg—66 to 173 centimeters (26.0 to 68.1 inches); 68 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent spherical very weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix and 25 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. Many Krotovina.; continuous - phpvsfiid 550982; continuous - phpvsfiid 550982
    2Cd—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; extremely firm; 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube. Lakebed sediments with 2.5Y 2.5/1 varves.