IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rarden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN143005
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN143005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IN143005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0294
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62227
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 38.6183319
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7527771
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1040 feet east and 560 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Henryville Quadrangle
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN143—Scott
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Nagel B. Hosteter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rarden
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rarden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Aquultic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1989 (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

    FEAR3

    Festuca arundinacea

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—71

    94—152

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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

    8

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    201

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    180

    109

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    11

    5

    18

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01812
    2Bt1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01813. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; common very fine and fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224798; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224798
    2Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 11 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 15 percent prominent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01814. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; common fine prominent 5Y62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 224799; continuous - phpvsfiid 224800; continuous - phpvsfiid 224799; continuous - phpvsfiid 224800
    2Bt3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine prominent mottles; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 15 percent prominent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01815. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; few very fine and fine roots between peds; many fine prominent 5Y62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 224801; continuous - phpvsfiid 224801
    2CB—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very channery silty clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 30 percent gray (5Y 6/1) fine and medium prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 11 percent fine and medium irregular barite crystals; 60 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01816. common fine and medium barite crystals concentrations; few very fine roots between peds; common fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; many fine and medium prominent 5Y61 mottles
    2Cr1—94 to 130 centimeters (37.0 to 51.2 inches); 20 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and 80 percent olive (5Y 5/3) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) exterior weathered bedrock; moderate thick platy structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01817. gray shale; few very fine roots between peds
    2Cr2—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); 80 percent olive (5Y 4/3) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) exterior weathered bedrock; moderate very thick platy structure; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01818. gray shale