IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Digby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997IN053001
  • User Pedon ID: S1997IN053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0252
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10523
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 40.5025253
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5977249
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet W and 2525 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Cool season grasses and legumes
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN053—Grant
  • MLRA: 111—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN053—Grant County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scot Haley, Bill Hosteter
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Digby
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: outwash terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—102

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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
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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 98P01456. This is for the cool season grass. We could have broke out an E horizon 8-10in.
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine high-continuity tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 98P01457. Horizon #2 the moist unrubbed color is 10YR 4/2.
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine high-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silt coats on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 98P01458. The silt coats in horizon #3 are 10YR 7/1 when dry.; continuous - phpvsfiid 200879; patchy - phpvsfiid 200880; continuous - phpvsfiid 200879; patchy - phpvsfiid 200880
    2Bt2—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine high-continuity tubular pores; 75 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments. Lab sample # 98P01459. continuous - phpvsfiid 202811; continuous - phpvsfiid 202811
    2Bt3—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine low-continuity tubular and 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments. Lab sample # 98P01460. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 202812; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 202812