IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crider
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015IN105004
  • User Pedon ID: S2015IN105004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0538
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 85266
  • Print Date: 5/14/2024

    • 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: 39.3241790
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4144030
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 25 feet north and 1160 feet East of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: BdB—Bedford silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN105—Monroe
  • MLRA: 120C—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN105—Monroe County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39086-C4—Hindustan, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Struben, D. Anderson, J. Allen, R. Neilson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crider
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/2/2015
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over fine-silty residuum weathered from limestone over limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 119cm
  • Geology: Ramp Creek formation of the Sanders group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Wetland Information:
  • HGM Class - slope

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: Woody Vegetation - Trees/Timber—Missouri Vegetative Classes

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Gary Struben, Dena Anderson, John Allen, Rick Neilson
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Kind of Land: nongrazable woodland understory
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    208 - 233

    - 25 -

    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

    53

    —

    285.8

    —

    220

    1170

    —

    170

    12.5

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; common medium roots and common fine roots and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02324; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium structure; friable; few very coarse roots throughout and common medium roots and common fine roots; 5 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N02325; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few very coarse roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels and 40 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N02326; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse structure; firm; few fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds and 3 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N02327; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—79 to 131 centimeters (31.1 to 51.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; few fine roots throughout; 5 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N02328; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—131 to 208 centimeters (51.6 to 81.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) broken face silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3) silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 70 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; and 2 percent fine prominent very weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds and 3 percent fine prominent strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented ? to 10-? millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 16N02329; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    3R—208 to 233 centimeters (81.9 to 91.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.