IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IN069002
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IN069002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - HU7902
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23343
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.7438083
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4343111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 640 feet north and 980 feet west of the southeast CORNER
  • Map Unit: BcB2—Blount loam, interlobate moraines, 1 to 4 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN069—Huntington
  • MLRA: 111B—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tardy and Walker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from Indiana lab data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2013
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/10/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # HU79021
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # HU79023
    BCt—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    C—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; massive; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # HU79025