IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rarden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IN143007
  • User Pedon ID: 89IN143007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IN143007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0296
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62229
  • 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: 38.6213875
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7530594
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 940 feet east and 400 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 and A. Nickell
  • 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 #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rarden
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • 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: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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—20

    20—84

    102—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

    7

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    195

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    135

    109

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    12

    23

    0

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01828. few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); 40 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) and 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01829. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    2Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; 11 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), 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 # 90P01830. 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 roots between peds; common fine distinct 2.5Y64 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224807; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224808; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224807; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224808
    2Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; 11 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine prominent and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01831. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common fine prominent 5Y62 mottles; many medium prominent 5YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 224809; continuous - phpvsfiid 224809
    2Bt3—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very 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 # 90P01832. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; many fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; many fine prominent 5Y62 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 224810; continuous - phpvsfiid 224810
    2CB—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior and 60 percent olive (5Y 5/3) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) exterior channery silty clay; moderate thick platy structure; firm; 70 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01833
    2Cr1—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior and 60 percent olive (5Y 5/3) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) exterior weathered bedrock; moderate very thick platy structure; very firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01834. gray shale
    2Cr2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior and 60 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior and gray (5Y 6/1) exterior weathered bedrock; moderate very thick platy structure; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01835. gray shale