IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossmoyne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1954OH071S03
  • User Pedon ID: 1954-OH071-S03
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HY-S03
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72615
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Homer Twp. 1/4 mi. SE of Danville, north wall of Danville limestone quarry.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH071—Highland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: holowaychuk
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossmoyne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Illinoian till; Illinoian till; Limestone
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # OSU0000235
    E—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); Error; subangular blocky, and weak thick platy structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # OSU0000236
    EB—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate subangular blocky structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # OSU0000237
    BE—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; prismatic structure; very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Mottled mixture of matrix colors. Not sampled.
    B—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and brown (10YR 5/3) Error; strong prismatic, and angular blocky structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # OSU0000238. Mottled mixture of matrix colors.
    2BC1—91 to 142 centimeters (35.8 to 55.9 inches); dark gray (N 4/), Error; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # OSU0000239. Sticky and plastic.
    2BC2—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) Error; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5. Lab sample # OSU0000240. Mottled mixture of colors. Moderately sticky and plastic.
    2C—203 to 305 centimeters (79.9 to 120.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and gray (10YR 6/1) Error; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0000241. Mottled mixture of colors. Neutral or calcareous.