IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN037001
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DU7610
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23308
  • 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: 38.2750778
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7424694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet south and 2200 feet west of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN037—Dubois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Coulter and Hudson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # DU76101
    B1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DU76102
    B2T—30 to 69 centimeters (11.8 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DU76103
    B3—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DU76104
    C—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; 35 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # DU76105