IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boyer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976IN151003
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IN151003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - ST7603
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22669
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 41.6706639
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9970472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: A typical pedon of Boyer loamy sand, in an area of Boyer-Ormas loamy sands, 0-6 percent slopes, in a cultivated field; 1900 feet west and 400 feet south of the NE corner of section 14.
  • Map Unit: BoB—Boyer-Ormas loamy sands, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN151—Steuben
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN151—Steuben County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Farmer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Boyer
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2013
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boyer
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/1976
  • Classifier - Soil Survey Staff
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ST76031
    E—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ST76032
    Bt1—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) coarse sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ST76033
    Bt2—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # ST76034