IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Birkbeck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956OH027052
  • User Pedon ID: 1956-OH027-052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CT-052
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72657
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Liberty Twp. about 6 miles N of Wilmington and 1 1/2 miles E of Rt. 68. 700 yds. E of Gano Rd. and 20 ft. S of Hiney Rd.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH027—Clinton

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: evans, garner
  • 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
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/3/1956 (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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) Error; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # OSU0003878
    B1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1. Lab sample # OSU0003879
    B21—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 11 percent medium faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # OSU0003880. Slightly sticky.
    B22—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. Lab sample # OSU0003881. Slightly sticky.
    B3—51 to 58 centimeters (20.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 11 percent fine distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # OSU0003882. Slightly sticky.
    C1—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; massive, and weak subangular blocky; 33 percent coarse prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0003883. Nonsticky; calcareous.
    C2—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; massive; 11 percent medium light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0003884. Nonsticky; calcareous.