IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fincastle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN177015
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IN177015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WY7915
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23156
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 39.7313278
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8221500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2204 feet west and 1740 feet north of the southeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN177—Wayne

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Blank and Busch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Aeric Ochraqualfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WY79151
    B1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79152
    B21T—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79153
    B22T—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79154
    B23T—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79155
    B3—99 to 142 centimeters (39.0 to 55.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WY79156
    C—142 to 157 centimeters (55.9 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; firm; 3 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # WY79157