IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN117001
  • User Pedon ID: 2015IN117003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - OR7801
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22931
  • 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: 38.4763139
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4650722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet east and 140 feet south of the center
  • Map Unit: WpmD3—Wellston-Ebal-Adyeville complex, 12 to 18 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN117—Orange
  • MLRA: 120B—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Northwestern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN117—Orange County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38086-D4—Valeene, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Wingard, Gary Hudson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Classifier - Domenech, Angel
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1978
  • Classifier - Robert Wingard
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Stephens Port group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/28/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—15

    15—203

    79—203

    —15—

    —188—

    —124—
    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    15

    —

    —

    246.9

    —

    1207

    —

    181

    12.2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    IN2309

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OR78011; moist when described;
    Bt1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR78012; moist when described;
    Bt2—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume , 30 percent by weight flat angular indurated 2-47-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR78013; moist when described;
    Bt3—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume , 7 percent by weight flat subangular indurated 2-47-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR78014; moist when described;
    2Bt1—79 to 140 centimeters (31.1 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR78015; moist when described;
    2Bt2—140 to 203 centimeters (55.1 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter. Lab sample # OR78016; moist when described;