IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plainfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IN073002
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN073002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JR7802
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23257
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 41.1924972
  • Std. Longitude: -87.1330028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet north and 2280 feet east of the southwest CORNER
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN073—Jasper
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN073—Jasper County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Osterholz and Smallwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Plainfield
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/15/2015
  • Classifier - M. Bromley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plainfield
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsin beach sand
  • Landform: beach ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    0—23

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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

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) sand; weak medium granular structure; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # JR78021
    E—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JR78022
    Bw1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JR78023
    Bw2—33 to 86 centimeters (13.0 to 33.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; single grain; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JR78024
    C1—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # JR78025
    C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # JR78026