IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1958OH029075
  • User Pedon ID: 1958-OH029-075
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CO-075
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71269
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: SE corner Sec. 27,Wayne Twp. in forest 400 ft. NW of cultivated field.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH029—Columbiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: hale & lessig
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    3

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    A11—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) Error; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008162
    A12—1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4 wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008163
    A21—4 to 10 centimeters (1.6 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008164
    A22—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak granular structure; friable; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008165
    23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 70 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4 broken boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008166
    C1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); 5/2 5/2) Error; manganese coatings; 99 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # OSU0008167. Soil forming in 1/8? thick layers in cracks of rocks. Rocks are olive siltstone to very fine grained sandstone.