IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mahoning
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1955OH007073
  • User Pedon ID: 1955-OH007-073
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AB-073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69534
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Rome Twp. about 3 1/2 mi. NNE of Orwell. Sample dug in road bank along Fillingham Rd. about 1 1/2 mi. E of the Fillingham Rd.-St.Rt. 45 intersection.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH007—Ashtabula

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: w. j. meyer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mahoning
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allis
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan till; Shale
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/1955 (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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) Error; fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003421. Slightly sticky.
    AB—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) Error; fine and medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint olive (5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003422. Slightly sticky and nonplastic.
    E—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) Error; fine and medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and 11 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 33 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003423. Slightly sticky and nonplastic.
    Btg1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) Error; medium angular blocky structure; firm; olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003424. Slightly sticky and plastic.
    Btg2—38 to 86 centimeters (15.0 to 33.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) Error; prismatic, and angular blocky structure; very firm; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003425. Sticky and slightly plastic.
    BC—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) Error; coarse prismatic structure; 1 percent manganese coatings; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. Lab sample # OSU0003426. Horizon designated as B3C1. Appears to be partially weathered shale. Some free carbonates occur along prism faces below this horizon.