LOCATION ADYEVILLE INEstablished Series
The Adyeville consists of moderately deep, somewhat excessively drained soils on hills. They formed in residuum from interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and shale. Slopes range from 8 to 60 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 43 inches, and mean annual temperature is about 54 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
TYPICAL PEDON: Adyeville very fine sandy loam on a 40 percent slope in woodland. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated).
A--0 to 3 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine sandy loam, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) dry; weak very fine granular structure; friable; many fine and medium roots throughout; 2 percent strongly cemented sandstone channers; extremely acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (2 to 4 inches)
E--3 to 9 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many fine and medium roots throughout; 2 percent strongly cemented sandstone channers; extremely acid; clear wavy boundary. (0 to 6 inches)
Bt1--9 to 17 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine and medium roots throughout; common faint discontinuous yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 7 percent strongly cemented channers; extremely acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bt2--17 to 24 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots between peds; many distinct discontinuous yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and common faint discontinuous yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent strongly cemented channers; extremely acid. Clear wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bt horizons is 14 to 30 inches)
Cr--24 to 60 inches; weakly cemented and moderately cemented sandstone interbedded with siltstone, shale, and very strongly cemented sandstone.
TYPE LOCATION: Perry County, Indiana; 450 feet south and 300 feet west of the northeast corner, sec. 3, T. 4 S., R. 3 W., USGS Bristow, IN topographic quadrangle: lat. 38 degrees 12 minutes 10 seconds N. and long. 86 degrees 43 minutes 5 seconds W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Depth to the base of the argillic horizon and depth to paralithic contact is 20 to 40 inches. The rock fragments are dominantly strongly or more cemented sandstone channers, and range from 0 to 15 percent in the A and E horizons, and 5 to 35 percent in the Bt horizon.
The A horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 2 or 3, chroma of 1 to 3. Ap horizons, where present, have hue of 10YR, value of 3 to 5 and chroma of 2 to 4. It is silt loam, loam or very fine sandy loam. Reaction is strongly acid to extremely acid in non-limed areas, and ranges to neutral in limed areas.
The E or BE horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 4. It is commonly loam or very fine sandy loam, and less commonly silt loam. Reaction is strongly acid to extremely acid.
The Bt horizon has hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 or 5, chroma of 4 to 6. It is commonly loam, fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam or their channery analogues, and less commonly silt loam or channery silt loam. Reaction is strongly acid to extremely acid.
The Cr horizon is dominantly weakly cemented and moderately cemented sandstone interbedded with siltstone, shale, and strongly or more cemented sandstone layers.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the
Dunellen,
Germano,
Greenwich,
Lansdale,
Rigley,
Swedesboro, and
Unicorn (T) series. Dunellen, Greenwich, Swedesboro and Unicorn soils do not have a lithic or paralithic contact in the series control section. Lansdale and Rigley soils are more than 40 inches to a lithic or a paralithic contact. Germano soils average less than 25 percent very fine sand in the upper part of the series control section.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Adyeville soils are on back slopes of hills underlain with interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and shale. Adyeville soils formed in residuum from interbedded sandstone, siltstone and shale that is dominantly moderately or less cemented. Slopes range from 8 to 60 percent. The mean annual temperature ranges from 52 to 57 degrees F and the mean annual precipitation range from 40 to 46 inches. Frost-free days range from 170 to 200.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Apalona, Deuchars, Ebal, Kitterman, Tipsaw, and Wellston soils. The moderately well drained Apalona soils have a fragipan and are on summits and shoulders of hills. The somewhat excessively drained Tipsaw and well drained Wellston soils are on similar landform positions as are the Adyeville soils. The moderately well drained Ebal, Kitterman, and Deuchars soils are on scarps and benches of hills underlain with shale interbedded with sandstone.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat excessively drained. Permeability is moderately rapid. The potential for surface water runoff is low or medium.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are in woodlands. A few moderately and strongly sloping areas are in cultivated crops or hay and pasture. Native vegetation is mixed, deciduous hardwood forest.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: South-central Indiana. The acreage is of small extent in the west part of MLRA 120.
MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Indianapolis, Indiana
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Perry County, Indiana, 1997. The source of the name is a small town in Perry County.
REMARKS: Diagnostic surface and subsurface horizons and features recognized in this pedon are: 1) Ochric epipedon- the zone from 0 to 9 inches (A, E horizons); 2) argillic horizon- the zone from 9 to 24 inches (Bt horizons); 3) paralithic contact- at 24 inches.
This soil was correlated as Gilpin in previous soil surveys in the west part of MLRA 120 in Indiana.
ADDITIONAL DATA: Data on pedon number S89-IN123-009 (typical pedon) is at the NSSC, Lincoln, NE, and several pedons sampled and correlated as Gilpin soils from Purdue University, Station Bulletins 174-591.