IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969IN065004
  • User Pedon ID: 1969IN065004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - HY6904
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22287
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 39.9353306
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4903444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 110 feet east of the northwest corner southwest 1/4 of the southeast 1/4 of
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN065—Henry

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders and Franzmeier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Setting and Climate
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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # HY69041
    A12—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium brown (10YR 4/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # HY69042
    B21TG—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent medium light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # HY69043
    B22TG—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent gray (5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # HY69044
    B23TG—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent gray (5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # HY69045
    C1G—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; friable; 3 percent distinct gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # HY69046