IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bennington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1949OH045S07
  • User Pedon ID: 1949-OH045-S07
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - FA-s07
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72738
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Sec. 21, T17N R19W, Liberty Twp.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH045—Fairfield

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: petro, young
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bennington
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/13/1949 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001371. Smooth.
    E—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak medium platy, and moderate granular structure; very friable; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001372. Smooth.
    BEt—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); Error; friable; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001373. Mixture of mottles. Occasional igneous stones and pebbles.
    Bt—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); Error; firm; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001374. Strongly mottled. Plastic when wet. Occasional pebbles.
    BCt—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); Error; dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001375. Strongly mottled. Very plastic when wet. Very hard when dry. Contains many small pebbles.
    C1—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); Error; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Non-calcareous weathered till. Not sampled.
    C2—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0001376. Glacial till.