IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984IN037004
  • User Pedon ID: 1984IN037004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - DU8404
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23828
  • 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: 38.4564167
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6852111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 925 feet west and 1080 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN037—Dubois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wingard and Merchant
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • 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 - 8/15/1984
  • 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 formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1984 (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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    17

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # DU84041
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DU84042
    BE—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DU84043
    BT1—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DU84044
    BT2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DU84045
    BC—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # DU84046