LOCATION HAGGATT INEstablished Series
The Haggatt series consists of deep, well-drained soils formed in clayey residuum that can be capped with up to 51 cm (20 inches) of loess. They are on hills and in sinkholes underlain with limestone. Slopes range from 2 to 25 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 109 cm (43 inches), and mean annual temperature is about 12 degrees C (54 degrees F).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Haggatt silt loam on a 16 percent slope in a pasture field at an elevation of about 238 cm (780 feet) above MSL. (Colors are for most soil unless otherwise stated.)
Ap--0 to 13 cm (0 to 5 inches); 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam, pale brown (10YR 6/3) dry; moderate medium granular structure; friable; many fine roots; very strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary.
Bt1--13 to 41 cm (5 to 16 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; many fine roots; many fine pores; many distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 12 percent pebbles; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
2Bt2--41 to 64 cm (16 to 25 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; common fine roots; common fine pores; many distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent pebbles; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
2Bt3--64 to 91 cm (25 to 36 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; few fine roots; few fine pores; many distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
2Bt4--91 to 112 cm (36 to 44 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; many distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; common medium very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron and manganese concretions; neutral; clear wavy boundary.
2R--112 to 152 cm (44 to 60 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) fractured, indurated limestone bedrock.
TYPE LOCATION: Washington County, Indiana; 400 feet north and 1,500 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 11, T. 1 S., R. 4 E. USGS Palmyra, IN. topographic quadrangle; lat. 38 degrees 26 minutes 03 seconds N. and long 086 degrees 02 minutes 44 seconds W., NAD 27. UTM Zone 16, 583304 easting and 4254426 northing, NAD 83.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Depth to the base of the argillic horizon: 102 to 152 cm (40 to 60 inches)
Depth to a lithic contact: 102 to 152 cm (40 to 60 inches)
Thickness of the loess: 0 to 51 cm (0 to 20 inches)
Rock fragments: dominantly gravel size chert and include cobbles and stones
A or Ap horizon:
Hue: 7.5YR or 10YR
Value: 4 to 5
Chroma: 2 to 6
Texture: silt loam or silty clay loam
Clay content: 12 to 30 percent
Sand content: 2 to 12 percent
Rock fragment content: 0 to 10 percent
Reaction: very strongly acid or strongly acid, and ranges to neutral in limed areas
Bt horizon:
Hue: 7.5YR or 10YR
Value: 4 or 5
Chroma: 4 to 6
Texture: silt loam or silty clay loam
Clay content: 24 to 34 percent
Sand content: 2 to 10 percent
Rock fragment content: 0 to 14 percent
Reaction: very strongly acid or very strongly acid, and the upper part ranges to neutral in limed areas
2Bt horizon:
Hue: 2.5YR, 5YR, or 7.5YR, and in some part it has hue of 5YR or redder
Value: 4 or 5
Chroma: 4 to 8
Texture: silty clay, clay or their gravelly analogues
Clay content: 45 to 75 percent
Sand content: 2 to 10 percent
Rock fragment content: 0 to 20 percent
Reaction: very strongly acid or very strongly acid in the upper part, and ranges to neutral in the lower part
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Beasley, Bledsoe, Bonnell, Bucklick, Caneyville, Cosperville, Eden, Enott, Estate, Faywood, Fredonia, Heverlo, Kewaunee, Lowell, Markland, Milton, Mountpleasant, Muncie, Solway, and Vandalia soils. Beasley, Eden, Enott, Heverlo and Solway soils have a paralithic contact in the series control section. Caneyville, Faywood, Fredonia and Milton soils have lithic contact above 102 cm (40 inches). Bledsoe, Bonnell, Cosperville, Kewaunee, Markland, Mountpleasant, Muncie and Vandalia soils either do not have lithic contact or have a lithic contact above a depth of 152 cm (60 inches). Bucklick soils average less than 45 percent clay in the series control section. Estate soils have more than 12 percent sand and 10 percent rock fragment in the A horizon. Lowell soils do not have any part of the argillic horizon that has a hue redder than 7.5YR.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Haggatt soils are commonly on summits, shoulders and back slopes of hills and sinkholes underlain with limestone. Slopes are typically from 6 to 25 percent, but range from 2 to 25 percent. They formed in clayey residuum that can be capped with up to 51 cm (20 inches) of loess. Mean annual temperature ranges from 11 to 14 degrees C (52 to 57 degree F), and mean annual precipitation ranges from 102 to 117 cm (40 to 46 inches). Frost free period is 170 to 200 days, and elevation ranges from 114 to 311 meters (375 to 1020 feet).
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Bedford, Caneyville, Crider, Frederick, Knobcreek, and Navilleton soils, which are all on hills and sinkholes underlain with limestone. The moderately well drained, very deep Bedford soils are on summits. The moderately deep Caneyville soils are on shoulders and back slopes. The well drained, very deep Crider, Frederick, and Knobcreek are on summits, shoulders, and back slopes.
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Well drained. The potential for surface water runoff is medium or high. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high (1.41 to 4.23 micrometers/s). Permeability is moderately slow, (See Remarks).
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for hay, pastures or are in forest. Native vegetation is deciduous hardwood forest.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southern and south central Indiana. The soil is of small extent in MLRA 122.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Owen County, Indiana 1996.
REMARKS: Data on the family particle-size classification of this series shows both fine and fine-silty over clayey. This series is tentatively placed in the fine family. The series has been correlated in Indiana as the Hagerstown series with a lithic contact between 102 to 152 cm (40 and 60 inches). The permeability of these soils is being revised from moderate to moderately slow. Saturated hydraulic conductivity data was collected by Ammozemeter, and permeability was shown to be slower than moderate.
Representative component and horizon data is in DMU# 153539 (Ksat value subject to change.).
Diagnostic horizons recognized in this pedon are: 1) Ochric epipedon: the zone from 0 to 13 cm (0 to 5 inches), (Ap horizon); 2) Argillic horizon: the zone from approximately 13 to 112 cm (5 to 44 inches), (Bt1, 2Bt2, 2Bt3, 2Bt4 horizons); and 3) Lithic contact at 112 cm (44 inches).
ADDITIONAL DATA: Characterization data available from Agricultural Experiment Station, Purdue University S79IN175-6, and data available from the National Soil Survey Lab, S92IN-119-25 and S97IN-043-006.