IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keene
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1958OH075001
  • User Pedon ID: 1958OH075001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HL-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70629
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4NW 1/4SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Northwest Killbuck Twp. , , of Sec. 8. 400 ft. N of county road, halfway between house and north road.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH075—Holmes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Don Urban; Ralph Meeker; Nick Holowaychuk
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2013
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Classifier - Don Urban
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—25

    25—127

    41—213

    48—127

    —25—

    —102—

    —172—

    —79—
    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

    6

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    353.6

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak thick platy, and weak coarse granular, and weak fine granular structure; friable; common (3.0) roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007936; observed in pit, small. Breaks to weak, thick platy structure in lower part of horizon.; Original structure description went overboard..
    E—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; weak thick platy structure; friable; common (2.5) roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007937; observed in pit, small
    BE—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (2.0) roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007938; observed in pit, small. No clay skins noted.
    Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (1.7) roots; 42 percent clay films on faces of peds; faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007939; observed in pit, small. -Matrix color descrined as 10YR 5/4 4/4 -Redox concentrations occur in lower part of horizon -Moderately friable -Thin, discontinuous clay skins are common on ped faces
    2Bt2—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.8) roots; distinct pale olive (5Y 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; distinct pale olive (5Y 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007940; observed in pit, small. -Horizon designated IIB22gA2' -Ped coatings are silty -Moderately friable
    2Bt3—48 to 58 centimeters (18.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium prismatic parts to weak platy structure; firm; few (0.5) roots between peds; prominent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; prominent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007941; observed in pit, small. -Matrix color 10YR 5/4-4/4 -Horizon designated as B23g -"The ped coatings are clayey and of medium thickness, though some thin clay skins were noted on the horizontal faces of the ped interiors."-? -No size described for the platy structure
    2Bt4—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; few (0.5) roots between peds; prominent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and prominent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007942; observed in pit, small
    2BCt—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; weak prismatic structure; firm; few (0.5) roots between peds; prominent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; prominent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0007944; observed in pit, small. -Horizon designated as B3-C1 -Redox and clay film color Munsell Designation estimated from verbal description -No size described for structure
    2C1—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) Error; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0007945; observed in auger, bucket. Mixture of clayey material (5Y 6/1) and somewhat more sandy dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) material. Fragments of weathered olive brown shale present. Mixed due to auger sample. Some clay flows appear to have penetrated this horizon. Fragments of weathered olive brown shale present.
    2C2—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) Error; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0007946; observed in auger, bucket. Intermingling of matrix colors with some streaks of dark brown ferruginous and possibly some carbonaceous material. Auger sample.
    2C3—183 to 213 centimeters (72.0 to 83.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) Error; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0007947; observed in auger, bucket. Mixture of matrix colors with some increase in carbonaceous material in lower 7 inches. There is an increase in weathered shale fragments. Auger sample.