Beanblossom soil series
A representative profile of Beanblossom silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded, very brief duration. (Soil Survey of Bartholomew County, Indiana; by Mike Wigginton and Dena Marshall, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Beanblossom series consists of deep, well drained soils that formed in 0 to 24 inches of medium-textured alluvium and the underlying loamy-skeletal alluvium. These soils are on flood plains and alluvial fans. Slope ranges from 1 to 3 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
Depth to the base of the cambic horizon: 20 to 34 inches
Depth to a paralithic contact: 40 to 60 inches
Particle-size control section averages 10 to 22 percent clay, and 35 to 75 percent rock fragments.
Size of the rock fragments is dominantly less than 3 inches, but fragments range to 6 inches. Rock fragments are dominantly pebbles in the solum, and dominantly channers in the substratum. The pebbles are of mixed lithology. The channers are dominantly strongly or very strongly cemented siltstone and very fine-grained sandstone.
Reaction is moderately acid to neutral in one or more horizons in the 10 to 40 inch particle-size control section.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of Beanblossom soils are used for hay, pasture or woodland. A few areas are used for cropland. Native vegetation is deciduous forest, dominantly sycamore, elm, hickory, beech, maple, and tulip poplar.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: South-central Indiana. Beanblossom soils are of moderate extent in east part of
MLRA 120C.
The Beanblossom soils were included with the Burnside soils in the past, and correlated as nonacid family taxadjuncts. The CEC activity class is estimated based on soils formed in similar parent materials. The series type location was moved in 2001 to a more representative area of how the soils have been correlated throughout the MLRA. Redoximorphic depletions may or may not be identifiable at 107 centimeters (3.5 feet) or below.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/indiana/IN005/...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BEANBLOSSOM.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#beanblossom
Beanblossom soil series
A representative profile of Beanblossom silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded, very brief duration. (Soil Survey of Bartholomew County, Indiana; by Mike Wigginton and Dena Marshall, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Beanblossom series consists of deep, well drained soils that formed in 0 to 24 inches of medium-textured alluvium and the underlying loamy-skeletal alluvium. These soils are on flood plains and alluvial fans. Slope ranges from 1 to 3 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
Depth to the base of the cambic horizon: 20 to 34 inches
Depth to a paralithic contact: 40 to 60 inches
Particle-size control section averages 10 to 22 percent clay, and 35 to 75 percent rock fragments.
Size of the rock fragments is dominantly less than 3 inches, but fragments range to 6 inches. Rock fragments are dominantly pebbles in the solum, and dominantly channers in the substratum. The pebbles are of mixed lithology. The channers are dominantly strongly or very strongly cemented siltstone and very fine-grained sandstone.
Reaction is moderately acid to neutral in one or more horizons in the 10 to 40 inch particle-size control section.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of Beanblossom soils are used for hay, pasture or woodland. A few areas are used for cropland. Native vegetation is deciduous forest, dominantly sycamore, elm, hickory, beech, maple, and tulip poplar.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: South-central Indiana. Beanblossom soils are of moderate extent in east part of
MLRA 120C.
The Beanblossom soils were included with the Burnside soils in the past, and correlated as nonacid family taxadjuncts. The CEC activity class is estimated based on soils formed in similar parent materials. The series type location was moved in 2001 to a more representative area of how the soils have been correlated throughout the MLRA. Redoximorphic depletions may or may not be identifiable at 107 centimeters (3.5 feet) or below.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/indiana/IN005/...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BEANBLOSSOM.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#beanblossom