IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sable
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: TR0022006IN023SH021009
  • User Pedon ID: TR0022006IN023SH021009
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - TRIN023SH021-Sable-lab
  • Transect Stop Number - 9
  • Transect Interval - 20.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0866
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79384
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 40.2780800
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3184662
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 8
  • Map Unit: Sa—Sable silty clay loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • MLRA: 111A—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Central Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN023—Clinton County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stephens, Norm
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sable
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Drummer TS
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2006
  • 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: 6/28/2006 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—36

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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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    280

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    21

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) crushed silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium 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 # 08N01427; observed in push tube
    A2—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) crushed silty clay loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg—36 to 75 centimeters (14.2 to 29.5 inches); 29 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face silt loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 70 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 547017; continuous - phpvsfiid 547017
    Bg2—75 to 107 centimeters (29.5 to 42.1 inches); 90 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 547018; continuous - phpvsfiid 547018
    2Bg—107 to 181 centimeters (42.1 to 71.3 inches); 90 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face stratified stratified loamy sand; 10 percent clay; structureless fine single grain; very friable; 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Cg—181 to 203 centimeters (71.3 to 79.9 inches); 75 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face stratified stratified loamy very fine sand to silt loam; 15 percent clay; structureless fine massive; firm; 25 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube