IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cincinnati
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: severely eroded
  • User Site ID: 2017IN143001
  • User Pedon ID: 2017IN143001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0107
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63154
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.6175003
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5774994
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 320 feet E and 550 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Scott County, IN
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Byron Nagel, Allan Nickell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cincinnati
  • PSC - 20 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/14/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cincinnati
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/10/2017 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—20

    20—20

    61—188

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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

    7

    —

    —

    207

    —

    225

    109

    —

    —

    12

    23

    0

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 85 percent brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; medium subangular blocky, and medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00613; dry when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt—20 to 61 centimeters (7.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00614; dry when described;. many clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1412473; continuous - phpvsfiid 1412473
    2Btx1—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds and 55 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00615; dry when described;. many clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; common clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1412474; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1412475; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1412474; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1412475
    2Btx2—91 to 130 centimeters (35.8 to 51.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 37 percent prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00616; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; common fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1412476; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1412476
    2Btx3—130 to 188 centimeters (51.2 to 74.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; coarse prismatic structure; firm; 37 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00617; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; common fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 1412477; continuous - phpvsfiid 1412477
    3Bt—188 to 203 centimeters (74.0 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay loam; coarse subangular blocky structure; 37 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green. Lab sample # 91P00618; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1412478; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1412478