IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN137013
  • User Pedon ID: 2016IN137001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - RI7813
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22932
  • 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: 39.1489833
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1104500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 980 feet east and 60 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN137—Ripley

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mc williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • 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: Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1978 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    8—58

    102—

    —8—

    —50—

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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
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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) flaggy silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78131
    Bt1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 medium roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds and 0.4 coarse roots between peds; 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 4 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-10-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, arenaceous fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78132
    Bt2—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) flaggy silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots between peds and 0.4 coarse roots between peds; 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-40-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI78133
    Bt3—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) flaggy silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots between peds and 0.8 fine roots between peds; 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 10 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-40-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # RI78134
    BC—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) flaggy silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 coarse roots between peds; 20 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # RI78135
    Cr—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) silt loam; subangular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # RI78136. soft weathered calcareous shale with strata of thinly bedded fractured limestone