IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956OH015S09
  • User Pedon ID: 1956-OH015-S09
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BN-s09
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70165
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Graham farm; 1.75 mi. S and 0.85 mi. E of Red Oak. 0.5 mi. E and 0.15 mi. S of house.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH015—Brown

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: holowaychuk, stout, bone, heddleson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Boston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allensville
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Illinoian till; Limestone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    4

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    280.4

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004228. Dry color: 10YR 6/3
    AB—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004229. Hard when dry. Dry color: 10YR 6/4.
    BA—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004230. Hard when dry. Dry color: 10YR 6/4.
    Bt—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004231. Hard when dry. Dry color: 10YR 6/4, 10YR 7/2.
    Btg1—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 33 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004232. Hard when dry. Dry color: 10YR 6/4, 10YR 8/2.
    Btg2—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) Error; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and 33 percent medium and coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004233. Hard when dry. Dry color: 10YR 6/4, 10YR 7/2 8/2. Lower boundary given as both gradual and clear.
    Btx3—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) Error; weak prismatic, and weak angular blocky structure; firm; black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004234. Moderately sticky and plastic when wet, hard when dry. Dry color: 10YR 7/1, 10YR 5/6.
    2BC1—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) Error; massive; very firm; distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, manganese coatings; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004235. Sticky and plastic when wet, extremely hard when dry. Dry color: 2.5Y 7/, 10YR 6/6.
    2BC2—122 to 137 centimeters (48.0 to 53.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) Error; 10YR (10YR mottles; massive; very firm; distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004236. Some of the mottling occurs as horizontal seams. Sticky and plastic when wet, extremely hard when dry. Dry color: 2.5Y 7/, 10YR 2.5Y 6/6.
    2C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 2.5Y (2.5Y/), Error; massive; very firm; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004237. Some of the mottling occurs as horizontal seams. Sticky and plastic when wet, extremely hard when dry. Dry color: 2.5Y 7/, 10YR 5/6, 2.5Y 6/4.