IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gessie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004IN103-001
  • User Pedon ID: S2004IN103001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004IN103-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1163
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16742
  • 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: 40.7558060
  • Std. Longitude: -86.0228577
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27 N.
  • Range: 4 E.
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet north and 756 feet west of the Mississinewa bridge in the Francis Godfroy Reserve no. 9
  • Location Description: Miami County, Indiana; about 1 mile east of Peru
  • Map Unit: Ge—Gessie silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN103—Miami
  • MLRA: 111—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN103—Miami County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40086-G1—Peru, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Mosher, R. Brock, R. Cripps, R. McAninch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gessie
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gessie
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—43

    43—109

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    196.6

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    889

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    165

    10.5

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) rubbed, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06752; observed in pit, small
    A—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06753; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06754; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—66 to 109 centimeters (26.0 to 42.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06755; observed in pit, small
    C1—109 to 155 centimeters (42.9 to 61.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06756; observed in pit, small
    C2—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior stratified stratified coarse sand to gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 25 percent by volume mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 04N06757; observed in pit, small