IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN109003
  • User Pedon ID: 2015IN109002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - MR7603
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22724
  • 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: 39.3766056
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4265750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 2180 feet west and 2310 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN109—Morgan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sturm and Kluess
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/2015
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/1976 (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 -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    76 - 101

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—

    10—76

    76—

    —10—

    —66—

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    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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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; many (7.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76031; moist when described;
    A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine granular parts to weak medium platy structure; friable; many (7.0) medium roots throughout and many (7.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76032; moist when described;
    Bt1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 15 percent thin brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76033; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 1394254; patchy - phpvsfiid 1394254
    2Bt2—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) fine roots between peds; 35 percent thin brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume , 20 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MR76034; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 1394255; patchy - phpvsfiid 1394255
    2Bt3—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery loam; structureless massive; firm; 15 percent thin brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 60 percent by volume , 65 percent by weight nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MR76035; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 1394256; patchy - phpvsfiid 1394256
    2R—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); silt; fragments. Lab sample # MR76036