IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colyer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1958OH141056
  • User Pedon ID: 1958-OH141-056
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - RO-056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72172
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: S.B. Marks farm, Owl Creek Rd., Twin Twp. One mi. due south of Concord School; 300 yds. NNW of house.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH141—Ross

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: petro, finney, baldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colyer
  • 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: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/1958 (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

    35

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    274.3

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    180

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) Error; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007700. High in organic matter content.
    E—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007701. A few shale fragments up to 0.5 inch across.
    BE—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007702. Coarse skeleton of black shale fragments up to 1.5 inch across.
    B—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007703. Plastic and non-sticky when wet. Coarse skeleton of black shale fragments up to 1.5 inch across.
    BC—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 75 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007704. Plastic and non-sticky when wet. Occurs between shale cleavage planes. Coarse skeleton of black shale.
    C—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); fragments. Predominantly more or less unweathered black Ohio shale.