IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1955OH001S03
  • User Pedon ID: 1955-OH001-S03
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AD-s03
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71591
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: One mi. N of Peebles and 1/8 mi. W of SR 41.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH001—Adams

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: holowaychuk, meeker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bratton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess; Limestone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/1955 (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 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002479. Dry color: 10YR 2.5x7/3; hard when dry.
    Bt1—22 to 34 centimeters (8.7 to 13.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002480. Dry color: 10YR 7/6-7/4; hard when dry.
    Bt2—34 to 51 centimeters (13.4 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002481. Dry color: 10YR -7.5YR 5/8 and 10YR 6/4; very hard when dry.
    Bt3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 10YR (10YR/), Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002482. Dry colors: 10YR 5-6/6 and 7.5YR 5/8; very hard when dry.
    Bt4—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; coarse prismatic, and moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002483. Dry colors: 10YR 5-6/6 amd 10YR7/1; very hard when dry.
    Bt5—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of reduced iron and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002484. Dry colors: 10YR 5/6-6/4 and 10YR 3/3; very hard when dry.
    Bt6—91 to 109 centimeters (35.8 to 42.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; moderate fine prismatic, and strong angular blocky structure; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002485. Dry color: 10YR-2.5Y 4/4; sticky and plastic when wet, extremely hard when dry.
    2C—109 to 130 centimeters (42.9 to 51.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; friable; faint light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0002486. Calcareous; appears to be sandy-textured residue of weathered limestone. Dry color: 2.5Y 8/4.
    Cr—130 to 137 centimeters (51.2 to 53.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # OSU0002487. Weathered ?rotten? limestone.