IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mechanicsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1953OH007017
  • User Pedon ID: 1953-OH007-017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AB-017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71888
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Richmond Twp., 2 1/4 miles ENE of Richmond Center. Dug from roadcut along north side of Woodard Rd. at a distance of 2 miles east from the intersection of Woodard Rd. and U.S.Rt. 6.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH007—Ashtabula

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: w. j. meyer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mechanicsburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meadville
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    8

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) Error; very fine granular structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # OSU0000510
    E—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; very fine granular structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # OSU0000511. Flat rock to 12 mm in horizon.
    BE—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; very fine granular, and subangular blocky, and granular structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # OSU0000512
    Bt—58 to 94 centimeters (22.8 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; subangular blocky structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # OSU0000513. Compact; common gravel up to 3 mm.