IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Miami
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: eroded
  • User Site ID: 1978IN031001
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN031001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DC7801
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23207
  • Print Date: 5/3/2024

    • 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: 39.3335278
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4982000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 10 feet east and 1100 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN031—Decatur

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shively
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Miami
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/2022
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Miami
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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: 3/23/1978 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic contact

    0—18

    18—89

    18—18

    89—89

    —18—

    —71—

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    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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # DC78011. Some 10YR 5/4 subsoil was mixed in with this horizon.
    2Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC78012
    2Bt2—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC78013
    2Bt3—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, sand coats on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC78014
    2BCt—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC78015
    2Cd—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) gravelly loam; structureless massive; very firm; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DC78016