IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rarden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN143006
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN143006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0295
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62228
  • 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: 38.6225014
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7519455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet east and 720 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: Byron Nagel and B. Hosteter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rarden
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • 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 - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—81

    102—140

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    —-

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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

    18

    —

    —

    198

    —

    315

    109

    —

    —

    11

    5

    18

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01819
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01820. many fine and medium roots throughout
    E—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent coarse spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01821. few coarse soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few very coarse roots throughout; many fine and medium roots throughout
    2Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01822. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very coarse roots throughout; common fine and medium roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224802; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224802
    2Bt2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01823. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very coarse roots throughout; common fine and medium roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224803; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224803
    2Bt3—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silty clay; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 0.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 15 percent distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01824. few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few fine and medium roots between peds; few very coarse roots throughout; common fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 224805; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224804; patchy - phpvsfiid 224805; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224804
    2BCt—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery silty clay; 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; weak thick platy, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 0.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01825. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine and medium roots between peds; few very coarse roots throughout; many fine distinct 5Y62 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 224806; patchy - phpvsfiid 224806
    2CB—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) extremely channery silty clay; moderate thick platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots in cracks; 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 75 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01826. few fine and medium roots in cracks
    2Cr—102 to 143 centimeters (40.2 to 56.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) weathered bedrock; moderate very thick platy structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 11 percent fine and medium irregular barite crystals; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromcresol green. Lab sample # 90P01827. gray shale; common fine and medium barite crystals concentrations; few very fine and fine roots in cracks