IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IN117011
  • User Pedon ID: 2016IN117005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0375
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45929
  • 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: 38.6083336
  • Std. Longitude: -86.5194473
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1260 feet west and 2500 feet south of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: WppD2—Wellston-Adyeville-Ebal silt loams, 12 to 18 percent slopes, 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-E5—French Lick, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Williams and R. Wingard
  • 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: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2015
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • 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 - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Classifier - Robert Wingard
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • 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
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 183cm
  • Geology: New Albany Shale group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1978 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    183 - 208

    - 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—18

    18—84

    84—183

    183—

    —18—

    —66—

    —99—

    —-
    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

    10

    —

    —

    192

    —

    180

    1207

    —

    181

    12.2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    IN2309

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and red (7.5R 5/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OR78011; moist when described;
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OR78012; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1443453; continuous - phpvsfiid 1443453
    Bt2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct silica coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OR78013; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1443454; patchy - phpvsfiid 1443455; continuous - phpvsfiid 1443454; patchy - phpvsfiid 1443455
    Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR78014; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1443456; continuous - phpvsfiid 1443456
    2BC1—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), dry, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 20 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR78015; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 1443457; patchy - phpvsfiid 1443457
    2BC2—117 to 150 centimeters (46.1 to 59.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very channery sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 33 percent by volume , 45 percent by weight flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR78016; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 1443458; patchy - phpvsfiid 1443458
    2BC3—150 to 183 centimeters (59.1 to 72.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very channery sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 59 percent by volume , 72 percent by weight flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 1443460; patchy - phpvsfiid 1443460
    2R—183 to 208 centimeters (72.0 to 81.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.