IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Martinsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969IN141002
  • User Pedon ID: 1969IN141002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - SA6902
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22361
  • 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: 41.5584722
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2983472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet east and 500 feet north of the southwest corner NE1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN141—St. Joseph

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Persinger and Benton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Martinsville
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Martinsville
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # SA69021
    A2—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # SA69022
    B1T—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # SA69023
    B2T—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 21 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # SA69024
    B3—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # SA69025
    C—94 to 132 centimeters (37.0 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # SA69026