IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Petrolia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN101008
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN101008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - MT8108
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23690
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.6166694
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8489833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 4290 feet south and 530 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN101—Martin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mcelrath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Petrolia
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Petrolia
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/1981 (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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MT81081
    CG1—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; massive; firm; 3 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # MT81082
    CG2—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 21 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # MT81083
    CG2—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 21 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # MT81084
    CG2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 21 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # MT81085