IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rensselaer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IN181006
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IN181006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WH7506
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22602
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024
  • 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: 40.7398000
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6856528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet west and 1000 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN181—White
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sinclair and Langlois
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rensselaer
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rensselaer
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/25/1975 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0

    AP—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WH75061
    A12—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 1 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH75062
    B21TG—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH75063
    B22TG—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH75064
    B3G—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH75065
    CG—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # WH75066