IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN013010
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN013010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - BR8110
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23826
  • 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: 39.0683167
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1372528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 525 feet west and 1700 feet north of the southeast corner
  • 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 #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: 10/8/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7. Lab sample # BR81101
    BT1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # BR81102
    BT2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # BR81103
    BT3—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # BR81104
    BTB1—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # BR81105
    BTB1—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # BR81106
    BTB2—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 8 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # BR81107
    BTB2—117 to 140 centimeters (46.1 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 8 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # BR81108
    BTB3—140 to 150 centimeters (55.1 to 59.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 30 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # BR81109