IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969IN063002
  • User Pedon ID: 1969IN063002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - HE6902
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22285
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 39.7687861
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3786389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet east of the north-south road northwest 1/4 of the southwest 1/4 of
  • Map Unit: ThrA—Treaty silty clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN063—Hendricks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN063—Hendricks County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders and Franzmeier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsin outwash over Wisconsin till
  • Landform: swale on till plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    36—183

    36—117

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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

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # HE69021
    A—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; moderate fine angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent fine distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # HE69022
    Btg1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 33 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # HE69023
    Btg2—51 to 58 centimeters (20.1 to 22.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on surfaces along root channels and 33 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 21 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # HE69024
    Btg3—58 to 117 centimeters (22.8 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on surfaces along root channels and 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # HE69025
    C1—117 to 183 centimeters (46.1 to 72.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to massive; friable; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # HE69026
    C2—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # HE69027