IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Miami
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IN107001
  • User Pedon ID: 87IN107001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987IN107001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0746
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60041
  • Print Date: 5/3/2024

    • 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: 39.9541664
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8855591
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 732 feet E and 30 feet S of NE corner
  • Location Description: Montgomery County, IN.
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN107—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 111—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WD Hosteter, Douglas Wolfe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Miami
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Miami
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—71

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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

    13

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    247

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    180

    104

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    12

    22

    -1

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03989; moist when described;. common very fine roots between peds
    1Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03990; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common very fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 222386; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 222386
    1Bt2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 55 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03991; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 222387; continuous - phpvsfiid 222387
    1Bt3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 55 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03992; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 222388; continuous - phpvsfiid 222388
    1C—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03993; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots in cracks
    1C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loam; massive; very firm; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog.; moist when described;. Platy till structure 1 to 5 cm wide. Clod samples taken.; effervescence is continuous