IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fincastle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IN169001
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IN169001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WB7501
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22491
  • 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: 40.7388278
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8262639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet east and 100 feet north of the southwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN169—Wabash

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanders and Ruesch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flat on till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/1975 (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; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WB75011
    B21T—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WB75012
    B22T—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WB75013
    B23T—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WB75014
    B3—84 to 91 centimeters (33.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WB75015
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; massive; very firm; 1 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # WB75016