IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957OH047004
  • User Pedon ID: 1957-OH047-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - FY-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69309
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1.6 mi. E of Manara; Roth farm, 200 yds SW of cattle shed.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH047—Fayette
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ranier, petro, finney
  • 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: 8/22/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    265.2

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) Error; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; firm; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006188. Very compact in place.
    B1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) Error; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006189
    B2—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and brown (10YR 4/3) Error; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006190
    B3—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) Error; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate subangular blocky structure; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006191. Mixture of mottles. The 10YR 3/1 and 10YR 4/1 colors occur as coatings.
    B4—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); Error; weak coarse prismatic, and subangular blocky structure; firm; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006192. Mixture of mottles. Mottles occur on ped faces, especially on upper part of horizon.
    BC—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); Error; coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006193. Mixture of mottles. Few small pebbles.
    C1—102 to 147 centimeters (40.2 to 57.9 inches); Error; massive, and coarse subangular blocky; gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006194. Glacial till. Compact. Mixture of mottles.
    C2—147 to 152 centimeters (57.9 to 59.8 inches); Error; gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006195. Glacial till. Compact. Mixture of mottles.