IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairpoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN021004
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN021004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - CL7804
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22939
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024
  • 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: 39.4256778
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0895083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 575 feet east and 1700 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN021—Clay
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mc carter and King
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairpoint
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairpoint
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Anthropogenic Feature: surface mine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • 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

    40

    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL78041
    C1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 10 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL78042
    C2—20 to 61 centimeters (7.9 to 24.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 25 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # CL78043
    C3—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) silty clay loam; 30 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # CL78044