IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN117004
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN117004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - OR7604
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23310
  • 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: 38.3966944
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6330556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 525 feet north and 2110 feet west of the southeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN117—Orange

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wingard and Boulding
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Edited to: fine-silty, mesic ultic hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/16/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/7/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OR76041
    B1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR76042
    B21T—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR76043
    B22T—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR76044
    B23T—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR76045
    B3T—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 35 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR76046
    C—117 to 127 centimeters (46.1 to 50.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; massive; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # OR76047
    2R—127 to 130 centimeters (50.0 to 51.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.