IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whitaker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1968IN011008
  • User Pedon ID: 1968IN011008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - BO6808
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22429
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.0189139
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4087139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1150 feet east and 150 feet north of the southwest corner NW 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN011—Boone

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders and Franzmeier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitaker
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitaker
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # BO68081
    A2—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BO68082
    B21TG—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BO68083
    B22TG—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent , moist, iron-manganese concretions and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # BO68084
    B23TG—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BO68085
    B31—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BO68086
    B32—114 to 130 centimeters (44.9 to 51.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) sandy loam; single grain; loose; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BO68087
    C—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # BO68088