IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006IN037002
  • User Pedon ID: S2006IN037002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18641
  • 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: 38.4604721
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7000275
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: SW1/4 SW1/4 Section 1, T1S, R3W Dubois County, Indiana SIPAC
  • Map Unit: WeC2—Wellston silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN037—Dubois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN037—Dubois County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Struben, Blanford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deuchars
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: shoulder hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone and shale at 170cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: SS18
  • 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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    170 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    slickensides

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    20—170

    51—

    84—

    170—

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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

    10

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    635

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04805; moist when described; observed in trench
    BA—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04807; moist when described;
    Bt1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04808; moist when described;
    Bt2—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine distinct irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04809; moist when described;
    2Bt3—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine distinct irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04810; moist when described;
    2Bt4—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and 10 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; distinct gray (10YR 6/1) slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04811; moist when described;
    2BCt—114 to 170 centimeters (44.9 to 66.9 inches); 80 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 10 percent 2.5Y 4/6 (2.5Y 4/6) and 10 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 5 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct gray (2.5Y 5/1) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04812; moist when described;
    2Cr—170 centimeters (66.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; moist when described;