IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Coloma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977IN085006
  • User Pedon ID: S1977IN085006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - KO7706
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23124
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 41.3688778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6574167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1175 feet north and 1080 feet west of the southeast CORNER
  • Location Description: Turkey Creek Township
  • Map Unit: RxB—Riddles-Ormas-Kosciusko complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN085—Kosciusko
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN085—Kosciusko County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41085-C6—North Webster, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry Staley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Coloma
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/2015
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chelsea
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - wheat
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Larry Staley
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    0—23

    71—102

    —23—

    —31—
    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

    —

    —

    274.9

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    931

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KO77061
    E1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO77062
    E2—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO77063
    E&Bt (Bt)—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) sand; weak fine granular structure; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KO77065
    E&Bt (E)—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # KO77064
    C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter. Lab sample # KO77066