IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shoals
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN085006
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN085006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - KO8106
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23809
  • 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: 41.0794750
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7628167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2230 feet north and 300 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN085—Kosciusko

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Staley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shoals
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shoals
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO81061
    C—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent prominent dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO81062
    CG1—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) loam; moderate coarse granular structure; firm; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO81063
    CG2—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent prominent gray (N 5/0), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO81064
    CG3—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) loam; massive; firm; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO81065
    CG4—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose; 6 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # KO81066