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Xenia soil series

A representative soil profile of Xenia silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded. (Soil Survey of Bartholomew County, Indiana; by Mike Wigginton and Dena Marshall, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

The Xenia series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils that are deep or very deep to dense till. Xenia soils formed in loess or other silty material and in the underlying loamy till on till plains. Slope ranges from 0 to 12 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 1067 mm (42 inches), and mean annual temperature is about 11.1 degrees C (52 degrees F).

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs

 

Depth to the base of the argillic horizon: 102 to 152 cm (40 to 60 inches)

Thickness of the loess or other silty material: 56 to 102 cm (22 to 40 inches)

Depth to carbonates: 102 to 152 cm (40 to 60 inches)

Depth to densic contact: 102 to 152 cm (40 to 60 inches)

Particle-size control section: averages 27 to 35 percent clay and less than 15 percent fine sand or coarser

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Mainly in MLRAs 111A and 111D, and to lesser extent in MLRAs 108A, 114A, and 114B in central Indiana, southwestern Ohio, and eastern and central Illinois. The type location is in MLRA 111D. The series is of large extent. A bedrock substratum phase is currently recognized and may become a new series as subset soil surveys with this phase are updated.

 

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/X/XENIA.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#xenia

 

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Uploaded on May 11, 2021
Taken in January 2000