IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN071014
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN071014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JN7914
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23309
  • 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: 39.0104917
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2705778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 840 feet south and 290 feet east of the center
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN071—Jackson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nagel and Mac donald
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1979 (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 -
    • 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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    )1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments.
    A1—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN79142
    B1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN79143
    B21T—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN79144
    B22T—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN79145
    B23T—81 to 142 centimeters (31.9 to 55.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN79146
    B3—142 to 168 centimeters (55.9 to 66.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions; 15 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN79147
    2R—168 to 178 centimeters (66.1 to 70.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.