IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hillsdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN033005
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN033005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DK7805
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23184
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 41.5195611
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1881778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1880 feet east and 2880 feet north of the southwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN033—De Kalb

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jensen and Lefforge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1978 (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 -
    • 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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK78051
    B1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK78052
    B21T—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK78053
    B22T—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK78054
    B23T—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DK78055
    C—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # DK78056