IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elkinsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970IN079006
  • User Pedon ID: 1970IN079006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JE7006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22317
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024
  • 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: 38.8684056
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6188444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet east and 20 feet north of the southwest cornerSE1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN079—Jennings
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nickell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkinsville
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkinsville
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    AP—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70061
    B1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70062
    B21T—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70063
    B22T—61 to 94 centimeters (24.0 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent , moist, iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70064
    B31T—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent , moist, iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70065
    B32T—124 to 142 centimeters (48.8 to 55.9 inches); loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # JE70066
    B32T—142 to 160 centimeters (55.9 to 63.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent , moist, iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # JE70067
    C—160 to 206 centimeters (63.0 to 81.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; massive; friable; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent , moist, iron-manganese concretions and 21 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # JE70068