IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Platea
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1954OH007040
  • User Pedon ID: 1954-OH007-040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AB-040
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71481
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Sheffield Twp.; 5 miles ESE of Ashtabula. Dug in a road cut at crest of low hill along State Rt. 83 about 1/4 mile east of the intersection of State Rt.83 and Benetha Rd.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH007—Ashtabula

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: w. j. meyer & D. H. TOUVELL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aeric Fragiaqualfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Platea
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Griggs
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/1954
  • 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: 11/3/1954 (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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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; very fine granular structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001655
    A2—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) Error; weak medium and coarse platy structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001656
    B21—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) Error; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001657
    B22—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky, and platy structure; firm; 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001658
    B23—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky, and platy structure; firm; 11 percent coarse distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001659. ?Overall structure is prismatic?
    Bm3—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; massive, and prismatic; very firm; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; 7 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # OSU0001660. Underlain by calcareous silt loam till with sandstone fragments.
    C—104 to 155 centimeters (40.9 to 61.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001661