IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Birkbeck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1955OH027S44
  • User Pedon ID: 1955-OH027-S44
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CT-s44
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70686
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Richland Twp. 1/4 mile NE of Melvin.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH027—Clinton

    • PEDON

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


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan loess; Wisconsinan till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • 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); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) Error; massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0002973. Compacted by excavating equipment.
    A3—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002974
    B1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002975
    B2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent fine black (N 2/), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002976
    B3—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic, and weak subangular blocky structure; firm; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 33 percent fine faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002977
    C1—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); light gray (N 7/), and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) Error; massive, and weak subangular blocky; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002978
    C2—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); light gray (N 7/), and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) Error; massive; firm; 1 percent carbonate masses and 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0002979
    2C3—112 to 150 centimeters (44.1 to 59.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; firm; 15 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0002980. Calcareous till.
    2C3—150 to 188 centimeters (59.1 to 74.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; firm; 15 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0002981. Calcareous till.