IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Williamstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN031028
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN031028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DC7628
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22676
  • 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: 39.2104639
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5981139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1030 feet west and 2080 feet north of the southeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN031—Decatur

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shively and Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 28
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Williamstown
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Celina variant
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/1976 (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); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # DC76281
    2Bt1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC76282
    2Bt2—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC76283
    2BCt—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC76284
    2C—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; very firm; 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # DC76285