IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loudon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1955OH071S34
  • User Pedon ID: 1955-OH071-S34
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HY-s34
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69502
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Liberty Twp. 3/4 mi. W of Bates School; Sampson Cutright farm.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH071—Highland
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: schafer, hale, meeker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loudon
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/6/1955 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    5

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; very fine and fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002845
    E—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002846
    BE—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; friable; manganese coatings; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002847
    B1—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable; manganese coatings; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002848
    B2—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002849. Coarse skeleton is chert fragments. Vesicular.
    B3—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; strong medium angular blocky structure; friable; 33 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0002850. Some erratics present
    BC—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; massive; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # OSU0002851. Plastic.
    C—152 to 160 centimeters (59.8 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Sampled with auger. No lab sample.
    R—160 to 165 centimeters (63.0 to 65.0 inches); fragments. Dolomitic rock.