IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tuscola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1954-OH003-004
  • User Pedon ID: 1954-OH003-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AL-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72577
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.8581505
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2435150
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Lat & Long approx.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH003—Allen
  • MLRA: 99—Erie-Huron Lake Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: baker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuscola
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuscola
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan lacustrine
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/1954 (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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001040
    E—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) Error; weak thick platy structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001041
    Bt1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001042
    Bt2—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001043
    BC1—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001044
    BC2—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001045
    2C1—117 to 178 centimeters (46.1 to 70.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) Error; massive; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001046. stratified with very fine sand and thin clayey lenses; clacareous.
    3C2—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); fragments. brown calcareous clayey till.