IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Birds
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IN083012
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IN083012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - KX7512
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22448
  • 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: 38.8965000
  • Std. Longitude: -87.2640083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet north and 1420 feet east of the center
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN083—Knox
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Henderson and Kelly
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Birds
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Birds
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/19/1975 (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
    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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KX75121
    C1G—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KX75122
    C2G—43 to 79 centimeters (16.9 to 31.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KX75123
    C3G—79 to 130 centimeters (31.1 to 51.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KX75124
    C4G—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; massive; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # KX75125