IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Starks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974IN017001
  • User Pedon ID: 1974IN017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - CS7401
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22614
  • 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: 40.6503250
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3732444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 130 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN017—Cass

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders and Douglas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Starks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Starks
  • Classificaton Date - 7/8/1974
  • 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: 7/8/1974 (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
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    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # CS74011
    A&B—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CS74012
    B21T—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 21 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CS74013
    B22T—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, sand coats and 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CS74014
    B3—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, sand coats and 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 21 percent distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # CS74015
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # CS74016