IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Piopolis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IN143011
  • User Pedon ID: 87IN143011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0430
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60548
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 38.7166672
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8383331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 635 feet N and 935 feet E of the center
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Nagel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Piopolis
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Piopolis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, acid, mesic Typic Fluvaquent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1987 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

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    —

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    162

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    107

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    12

    23

    0

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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, iron stains in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02233; moist when described;. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many iron stains surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots; few fine roots throughout; many fine distinct 10YR53 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223078; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223078
    1Cg1—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, iron stains in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02234; moist when described;. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many iron stains surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots throughout; many medium distinct 10YR53 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 223079; patchy - phpvsfiid 223079
    1Cg2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine distinct and 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 37 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains in root channels and/or pores; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02235; moist when described;. Horizon split for sampling purposes 074-099 cm sample number 88P2236.; common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots throughout; many fine prominent 7.5YR68 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR64 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223080; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223080
    1Cg3—99 to 124 centimeters (39.0 to 48.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium distinct and 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fine prominent mottles; massive; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 37 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains in root channels and/or pores; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 88P02237; moist when described;. Below 165 cm texture is heavy silt loam or light silty clay loam.; common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots throughout; many fine prominent 7.5YR68 mottles; common medium distinct 10YR64 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223081; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223081