IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Coloma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993IN039015
  • User Pedon ID: S1993IN039015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0312
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66490
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 41.7286110
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7338867
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet east and 1050 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: York Township
  • Map Unit: CnbB—Coloma sand, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN039—Elkhart
  • 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: IN039—Elkhart County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41085-F6—Middlebury, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rex Brock and G. Franklin Furr, Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Coloma
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/24/2015
  • Classifier - Jon Quisler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Coloma
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Argic Udipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/1993
  • Classifier - Brock and Furr
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy outwash
  • Landscape: sandhills
  • Landform: outwash terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/4/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Rex Brock & G. Franklin Furr, Jr.
  • Air Photo ID: 249-2
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop trees
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    0—30

    119—203

    —30—

    —84—
    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

    4

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    —

    244.6

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    180

    950

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01954
    E1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01955
    E2—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01956
    E3—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior sand; structureless single grain; loose; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01957
    E4—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior sand; structureless single grain; loose; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01958
    E&Bt (Bt)—119 to 203 centimeters (46.9 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 94P01960
    E&Bt (E)—119 to 203 centimeters (46.9 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 94P01959