IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1973IN173008
  • User Pedon ID: 2015IN173001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WA7308
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22427
  • 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: 38.1730944
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0972056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1040 feet south and 600 feet east of the northwest corner northeast 1/4 of the
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN173—Warrick

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shively
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Classifier - Domenech, Angel
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 1/18/1974
  • 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 Siltst + Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/18/1974 (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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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate very fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WA73081
    E—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular parts to weak coarse platy structure; friable; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WA73082
    BE—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many (5.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) fine roots; 15 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WA73083. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1430101; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1430101
    Bt1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; 70 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WA73084. continuous - phpvsfiid 1430102; continuous - phpvsfiid 1430102
    2Bt2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; 70 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WA73085. continuous - phpvsfiid 1430103; continuous - phpvsfiid 1430103
    2Bt3—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; common very fine roots and common medium roots and few fine roots; 70 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WA73086. continuous - phpvsfiid 1430104; continuous - phpvsfiid 1430104
    2BC—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and few (3.0) fine roots; 15 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat angular moderately coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # WA73087. patchy - phpvsfiid 1430105; patchy - phpvsfiid 1430105
    2C—102 to 112 centimeters (40.2 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine prominent irregular mottles; massive; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-35-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # WA73088
    2Cr—112 to 117 centimeters (44.1 to 46.1 inches); fragments.