IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN055003
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN055003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - GN8003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23610
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 39.1546250
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0331278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 760 feet east and 100 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN055—Greene

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mccarter and Hill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: loess hill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/3/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # GN80031
    B1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak coarse platy structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # GN80032
    B21T—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # GN80033
    B22T—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # GN80034
    B23T—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats and 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # GN80035
    B24T—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # GN80036
    B25T—112 to 135 centimeters (44.1 to 53.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # GN80037
    B3—135 to 155 centimeters (53.1 to 61.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # GN80038
    C—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; 35 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # GN80039