IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Xenia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005IN159004
  • User Pedon ID: S2005IN159004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.3793056
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8941389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 6
  • Map Unit: TuB2—Tuscola, till substratum-Strawn complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • 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-D8—Greentown, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stephens, Norm; McAninch, Ryan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuscola
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1989
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Xenia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciofluvial deposits and/or till
  • Landscape: Wisconsin till plain
  • Landform: loamy washboard ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    weakly coherent

    124 - 203

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—26

    26—100

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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

    2

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    265

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    6

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    Ap—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) crushed silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 318060; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 318060
    Bt—26 to 74 centimeters (10.2 to 29.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct spherical very weakly coherent cemented very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix and 8 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 318059; continuous - phpvsfiid 318059
    2Bt1—74 to 100 centimeters (29.1 to 39.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 1 percent medium distinct spherical very weakly coherent cemented very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix and 50 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, ferriargillans with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter basalt fragments and nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter chert fragments and 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-5-10 millimeter shale, clayey fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—100 to 124 centimeters (39.4 to 48.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face clay loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 5 percent distinct organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium distinct spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, reduced matrix; nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-5-10 millimeter shale, clayey fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter chert fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 318057; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 318057
    2Bd3—124 to 203 centimeters (48.8 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face loam; 22 percent clay; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 1 percent medium prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, reduced matrix; nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-5-10 millimeter shale, clayey fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter chert fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary.; observed in pit, small