IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IN021022
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IN021022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - CL7722
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22868
  • 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: 39.3923417
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9968250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet north and 400 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN021—Clay

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mccarter and Neely
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77221
    B1T—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77222
    B21T—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats and 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77223
    B22T—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats and 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77224
    B23T—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77225
    B3—86 to 130 centimeters (33.9 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) stony loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # CL77226
    CR—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 90 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # CL77227