IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elkinsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IN077016
  • User Pedon ID: 2016IN077001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JF7916
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23148
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 38.7610694
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6287000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet west and 1850 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • Map Unit: EkB—Elkinsville silt loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN077—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN077—Jefferson County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-G6—Deputy, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nickell, Allan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkinsville
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/2015
  • Classifier - Domenech, Angel
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkinsville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/1979
  • Classifier - Nickell, Allan
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: New Albany Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—117

    91—152

    —20—

    —97—

    —61—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    192.3

    —

    1771

    —

    197

    12.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    IN5237

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # JF79161; moist when described;
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # JF79162; moist when described;
    Bt2—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # JF79164; moist when described;
    Bt3—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent cylindrical strongly coherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # JF79165; moist when described;
    2Bt4—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # JF79166; moist when described;
    2C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint irregular mottles; structureless massive; friable; 5 percent by volume , 7 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-34-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # JF79167; moist when described;