IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956IN083001
  • User Pedon ID: S1956IN083001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956IN083001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5231
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42478
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 9W
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, SE 1/4 Grant No. 120
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN083—Knox
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN083—Knox County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O. C. Rogers
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 11/2/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/2/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LESPE

    Lespedeza

    lespedeza

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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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39313
    A2—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; worm casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39314
    B1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39315
    B21t—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam, silty clay loam; moderate and strong coarse subangular blocky parts to fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats and 75 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films and 75 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39316
    B22t—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam, silt loam; weak and moderate coarse and very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films and 75 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39317
    B3—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats and 10 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films and 10 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, coats and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, coats; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39318
    C—122 to 140 centimeters (48.0 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A39319