IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1958OH141051
  • User Pedon ID: 1958-OH141-051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - RO-051
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68990
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Scioto Trail State Forest; 0.8 mi. ENE of fire tower; 0.3 mi. N of dam of Stewart Lake; 3 mi. NNE of Alma; Franklin Twp.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH141—Ross

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: finney, petro, baldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/15/1958 (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

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Dark brown matted mor type humus layer. Not sampled.
    A—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 5/1) and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; Error; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3 wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007115. Relatively few flat small sandstone fragments.
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007116. Peds somewhat resistant to pressure. Coarse skeleton of flat sandstone fragments irregularly positioned.
    BE—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007117. Peds somewhat resistant to pressure. Coarse skeleton of flat sandstone fragments irregularly positioned.
    B1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007118. Coarse skeleton of flat sandstone fragments irregularly positioned.
    B2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), 7.5YR 7/ (7.5YR 7/),, dry; Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007119. Coarse skeleton of flat sandstone fragments irregularly positioned.
    B3—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007120. Mottled mixture of matrix colors. Plastic but not very sticky when wet. Coarse skeleton of flat sandstone fragments.
    BC—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007121. Plastic but not especially sticky when wet. Occasional fragments of soft relatively unweathered clay shale. Coarse skeleton of small flat sandstone fragments.
    C—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) Error; weak coarse platy, and angular blocky structure; firm; reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007122. Plastic but non-sticky when wet. Occasional pieces of relatively unweathered clay shale.