LOCATION WOODMERE IN+KYEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Woodmere silty clay loam on a 1 percent slope in a cultivated field. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
Ap--0 to 10 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) dry; moderate medium granular structure; friable; neutral; abrupt smooth boundary. (7 to 11 inches thick)
Bw--10 to 30 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common discontinuous dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic coatings in root channels; few continuous yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay depletions on faces of peds; few flakes of mica; neutral; abrupt wavy boundary. (14 to 30 inches thick)
2Bwb--30 to 42 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure parting to moderate medium subangular blocky; firm; common distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic coatings on faces of peds; common flakes of mica; moderately acid; clear wavy boundary.
2Btb1--42 to 59 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure parting to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky; firm; few discontinuous distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organo-clay films on faces of peds; few discontinuous prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay depletions on faces of peds; common mica flakes; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
2Btb2--59 to 80 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure parting to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky; firm; few discontinuous faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; few discontinuous distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay depletions on faces of peds; few black (10YR 2/1) iron and manganese accumulations; common flakes of mica; strongly acid. (Combined thickness of the 2Bwb horizon and the 2Btb horizon is 21 to 60 inches.)
TYPE LOCATION: Vanderburgh County, Indiana; 1 1/2 miles west and 1/4 mile south of Rahm, 1,300 feet north and 30 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 34, T. 7 S., R. 11 W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: The depth to the base of soil development ranges from 50 to more than 80 inches. Thickness of the recent alluvium is 20 to 36 inches. The recent alluvial material ranges from neutral to slightly acid and the older buried alluvial material ranges from moderately acid to very strongly acid. The particle-size control section averages 25 to 42 percent clay and 5 to 12 percent sand.
The upper part of the control section (Ap horizon) has hue of 10YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 to 4. It is silt loam or silty clay loam.
The second part of the control section (Bw horizon) has hue of 10YR, value of 4 or 5 and chroma of 3 or 4. It is silt loam or silty clay loam.
The third part of the control section (2Bwb horizon) have hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 to 6, and commonly has redox features. It is commonly silty clay loam or silty clay.
The lower part of the control section (2Btb, 2BC, and 2C where present) has hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 to 6, and has redox features. It is commonly silty clay, silty clay loam, or clay loam and includes thin strata of loam and sandy loam.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no other competing series.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Woodmere soils are on flood plains and flood-plain steps commonly along the Ohio River and its tributaries. Woodmere soils formed in 20 to 36 inches of recent alluvium and the underlying older alluvial materials. Slopes range from 0 to 2 percent. The mean annual precipitation is 40 to 46 inches and the mean annual temperature is 52 to 57 degrees F.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Ginat, Hatfield(T), Huntington, Lindside, McAdoo(T), Millstone(T), Newark, Nolin, Rahm, Sciotoville, Weinbach, and Wheeling soils. The well drained Millstone and Wheeling, moderately well drained Sciotoville, somewhat poorly drained Hatfield and Weinbach, and poorly drained Ginat soils are on stream terraces. The well drained Huntington, Nolin, McAdoo, the moderately well drained Lindside, and the somewhat poorly drained Newark soils are on adjacent and lower lying flood plains and flood-plain steps.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Moderately well drained.
Permeability is moderate in the upper part of the solum, and moderately slow in the lower part. Runoff is slow. An apparent intermittent high water table is at 2.5 feet to 3.5 feet from December through April in most years. This soil is subject to rare to frequent periods of flooding.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of these soils are used for growing cultivated crops. A few areas are in woodland. Native vegetation is mixed, deciduous hardwood forest.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southern Indiana. The series is of small extent in MLRA's 115, 120, 122, and 121.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Indianapolis, Indiana
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Vanderburgh County, Indiana, 1939.
REMARKS: The particle-size class is not clearly known. Characterization data is very limited, and data from a pedon in Perry Co., IN places this series in the fine-silty rather than fine class. As more data is collected, the classification of this series could change.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are: 1) Ochric epipedon: the zone from 0 to 10 inches (Ap horizon); 2) Cambic horizon: the zone from 10 to 30 inches (Bw horizon); 3) Buried soil horizons: the zone from 30 to 80 inches (2Bwb, 2Btb1, 2Btb2; 4) Redoximorphic features: the zone from 30 to 80 inches.
ADDITIONAL DATA: Lab data available for this series is on file at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Purdue University, Station Bulletin No. 175, File No. WA7401; and pedon number S94IN-123-010 at the National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE.