IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006IN037003
  • User Pedon ID: S2006IN037003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1110
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18642
  • 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: 38.4604454
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6997223
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: SW1/4 SW1/4 Section 1, T1S, T3W Dubois County, Indiana SIPAC
  • Map Unit: GlD3—Gilpin silt loam, 12 to 18 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN037—Dubois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN037—Dubois County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Owens, Blanford, Neyhouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • PSC - 12 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: backslope hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle 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: indurated sandstone and shale at 140cm
  • 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 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

    0—12

    12—140

    28—

    140—

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    —-

    —-

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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

    15

    —

    —

    630

    —

    90

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 30-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04813; observed in trench
    Bt1—12 to 28 centimeters (4.7 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04814. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364082; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364083; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364082; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364083
    Bt2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent medium distinct irregular light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 60 percent medium distinct irregular light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 14 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04815. continuous - phpvsfiid 364084; continuous - phpvsfiid 364084
    2Bt3—43 to 82 centimeters (16.9 to 32.3 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 10 percent distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 60 percent medium distinct irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04816. continuous - phpvsfiid 364085; continuous - phpvsfiid 364086; continuous - phpvsfiid 364087; continuous - phpvsfiid 364085; continuous - phpvsfiid 364086; continuous - phpvsfiid 364087
    2Bt4—82 to 110 centimeters (32.3 to 43.3 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 10 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent medium distinct irregular light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04817. continuous - phpvsfiid 364088; continuous - phpvsfiid 364089; continuous - phpvsfiid 364090; continuous - phpvsfiid 364088; continuous - phpvsfiid 364089; continuous - phpvsfiid 364090
    2Bt5—110 to 140 centimeters (43.3 to 55.1 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 30 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) flaggy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct 7.5YR 4/8 (7.5YR 4/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent medium distinct irregular gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 15 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented ? to 180-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04818. continuous - phpvsfiid 364091; continuous - phpvsfiid 364092; continuous - phpvsfiid 364091; continuous - phpvsfiid 364092
    C—140 to 172 centimeters (55.1 to 67.7 inches); clay; massive; firm; distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 30 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N04819. continuous - phpvsfiid 364093; continuous - phpvsfiid 364093