IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991IN119009
  • User Pedon ID: 91IN119009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0744
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63783
  • 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: 39.1877785
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8413925
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet E and 100 feet S of center
  • Location Description: Owen County, Indiana
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN119—Owen
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul McCarter Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alvin
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alvin
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    0—36

    36—46

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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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    177

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    270

    112

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04178; moist when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    E—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loamy sand; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04179; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains and 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04180; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234165; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 234165
    Bt2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04181; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common clay bridging surface features between sand grains; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 234167; continuous - phpvsfiid 234167
    Bt3—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04182; moist when described;. common clay bridging surface features between sand grains
    Bt4—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04183; moist when described;. common clay bridging surface features between sand grains
    BC—122 to 170 centimeters (48.0 to 66.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04184; moist when described;. (subsample 48-55") Sample 91P4185 (subsample 55-67"); common clay bridging surface features between sand grains
    C—170 to 203 centimeters (66.9 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P04186; moist when described;. effervescence is continuous