IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zanesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973IN147003
  • User Pedon ID: S1973IN147003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973IN147003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5311
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42558
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 930 feet north and 1185 feet east of the SW corner of the NW1/4
  • Location Description: 2 miles east and 1.5 miles north of Dale
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN147—Spencer
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN147—Spencer County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. W. Sanders
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty Typic Fragiudults
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from shale and/or residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landform: ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: siltstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/30/1973 (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

    DAGL

    PHLEU

    Dactylis glomerata

    Phleum

    orchardgrass

    timothy

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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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    162

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39951
    Bt1—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39952. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 301558; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 301558
    Bt2—40 to 61 centimeters (15.7 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; 10 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39953. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 301559; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 301560; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 301559; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 301560
    E—61 to 66 centimeters (24.0 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 14 percent clay; 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium faint and 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A39954. This horizon includes 50% or more material like the Bt2.
    Bx1—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; 3 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium distinct mottles; strong coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 0.1 fine roots top of horizon; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; thin grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats and 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39955, 40A39956. continuous - phpvsfiid 301561; continuous - phpvsfiid 301562; continuous - phpvsfiid 301561; continuous - phpvsfiid 301562
    2Bx1—86 to 100 centimeters (33.9 to 39.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; 21 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine pores; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 18 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39957. continuous - phpvsfiid 301563; continuous - phpvsfiid 301564; continuous - phpvsfiid 301563; continuous - phpvsfiid 301564
    2Bx2—100 to 123 centimeters (39.4 to 48.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; thin light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 13 percent by volume 20-?-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume 20-?-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume 20-?-76 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39958. continuous - phpvsfiid 301565; continuous - phpvsfiid 301565
    2B—123 to 156 centimeters (48.4 to 61.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam, silty clay; thick platy structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39959
    2C—156 to 207 centimeters (61.4 to 81.5 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) bedrock; thick platy structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 40A39960
    R—207 to 212 centimeters (81.5 to 83.5 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A39961