IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN013004
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN013004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - BR8104
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23825
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 39.1582056
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2340167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 875 feet east and 75 feet north of the center of the
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN013—Brown

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ziegler and Noble
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/1981
  • 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 Siltst + Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/23/1981 (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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    12

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81041
    A2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BR81042
    B21T—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81043
    B22T—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 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 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81044
    B23T—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81045
    B3T—89 to 130 centimeters (35.0 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 10 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81046