IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Patton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004IN159001
  • User Pedon ID: S2004IN159001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 40.2222500
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1086389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 31
  • Map Unit: Pn—Patton silty clay loam, Tipton Till Plain, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN159—Tipton
  • MLRA: 111A—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Central Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN159—Tipton County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40085-D7—Point Isabel, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stephens, Norm; Endres, Tonie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, superactive, mesic Cumulic Epiaquolls
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Del Rey
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1989
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Southwest
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 89 to 139 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty glaciofluvial deposits derived from sedimentary rock over loamy till derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: Wisconsin till plain
  • Landform: silty overflow channel glacial drainage channel
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/30/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: ponded
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    76 - 80

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—89

    89—193

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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

    0

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    262

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    38

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed, dry; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed, dry; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 317964; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 317964
    Ab1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed, dry; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 317965; continuous - phpvsfiid 317965
    Ab2—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots between peds; 70 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 317966; continuous - phpvsfiid 317966
    Bg1—89 to 147 centimeters (35.0 to 57.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face clay loam; 30 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine prismatic structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 5 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organoargillans on surfaces along root channels and 10 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent spherical noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; nonflat subrounded granite fragments and nonflat subrounded basalt fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded chert fragments and 1 percent by volume flat subangular shale, clayey fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 317967; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 317968; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 317967; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 317968
    Bg2—147 to 193 centimeters (57.9 to 76.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine prismatic structure; friable; 6 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent spherical noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; nonflat subrounded granite fragments and nonflat subrounded basalt fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded chert fragments and 1 percent by volume flat subangular shale, clayey fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 317969; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 317969
    2C—193 to 203 centimeters (76.0 to 79.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face loam; 40 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 20 percent clay; mottles; firm; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated shale, clayey fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded chert fragments.; observed in pit, small