IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN175015
  • User Pedon ID: 2015IN175005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WS8115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23715
  • 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: 38.5941917
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9592361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet north and 400 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN175—Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robards
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 30 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2015
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: 10/9/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    strongly coherent

    132 - 157

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—15

    30—74

    74—132

    132—

    —15—

    —44—

    —58—

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    15

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many (5.0) fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # WS81151; moist when described;
    BE—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many (5.0) fine roots; many (5.0) fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WS81152; moist when described;
    Bt1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots; common (3.0) fine pores; 70 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # WS81153; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1430128; continuous - phpvsfiid 1430128
    Bt2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots; common (3.0) fine pores; 70 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume , 3 percent by weight flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-10-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WS81154; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1430129; continuous - phpvsfiid 1430129
    2BC—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; few (0.5) fine pores; 20 percent by volume , 30 percent by weight flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-10-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WS81155; moist when described;
    2C—94 to 132 centimeters (37.0 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent by volume , 45 percent by weight flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WS81156; moist when described;
    2R—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # WS81157