IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006IN037004
  • User Pedon ID: S2006IN037004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18643
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 38.4602509
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6991653
  • 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: 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: Struben, Marshall
  • 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 #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • PSC - 16 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deuchars
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2006
  • 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: 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: moderately coherent sandstone and shale at 134cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2006 (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

    134 -

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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

    paralithic contact

    0—16

    16—134

    63—

    134—

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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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    —

    620

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 30 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 angular strongly coherent cemented ? to 10-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04820; observed in trench
    Bt1—16 to 33 centimeters (6.3 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 4 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented ? to 10-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented ? to 35-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04821
    Bt2—33 to 63 centimeters (13.0 to 24.8 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) paragravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 4 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented ? to 35-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat moderately coherent cemented ? to 35-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04822
    Bt3—63 to 87 centimeters (24.8 to 34.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) parachannery silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 16 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented ? to 35-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04823
    2BC1—87 to 120 centimeters (34.3 to 47.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) extremely parachannery silty clay loam; weak medium platy, and weak thick platy structure; firm; 65 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented ? to 75-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04824
    2BC2—120 to 134 centimeters (47.2 to 52.8 inches); 60 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very parachannery silty clay; weak medium platy, and weak thick platy structure; firm; 40 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented ? to 35-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04825
    2Cr—134 to 164 centimeters (52.8 to 64.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and black (10YR 2/1) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 06N04826