IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956OH141031
  • User Pedon ID: 1956-OH141-031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - RO-031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69346
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • Location Description: of Sec. 12, Green Twp.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH141—Ross

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: jones, petro
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/28/1956 (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); black (10YR 2/1) Error; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0005183
    A—18 to 29 centimeters (7.1 to 11.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) Error; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0005184
    A/B—29 to 41 centimeters (11.4 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0005185. 10YR 3/1 colors confined to cleavage faces of angular blocky units and appear as clay skins.
    BA—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0005186
    B1—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0005187. Less dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay skins than in BA.
    B2—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and brown (10YR 5/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; 15 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0005188
    BC—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) Error; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0005189
    C1—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0005190. Calcareous glacial till.
    C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Calcareous sandy and fine gravelly loam glacial till that appears to have been reworked by water.