IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959OH157S01
  • User Pedon ID: 1959-OH157-S01
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - TU-s01
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70569
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Fairfield Twp. Sec. 5, of . Sample was taken about 650 ft. N of structures at junction of headwater streams in watershed study and approximately 250-300 ft. up slope from valley floor.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH157—Tuscarawas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: baker, boyce, marston, whipkey
  • 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: Sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/23/1959 (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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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2); fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # OSU0009803. Mull of leaves and twigs of oaks, beech, soft maple, and other trees and shrubs. Covered with fresh leaf fall.
    Oe—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2); fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009804. Mull of partly decomposed leaves and twigs of oaks, beech, soft maple, and other trees and shrubs. Slight amount of mineral matter mixed in among mull. Mull is somewhat laminated.
    A—8 to 11 centimeters (3.1 to 4.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) Error; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009805. Colors are variable within a few inches horizontally and fractions of an inch vertically. Sandstone fragments up to 2 inches in diameter common. Horizon varies from 1 to 2.5 inches thick within a few inches horizontally.
    E1—11 to 18 centimeters (4.3 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak fine granular, and weak subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # OSU0009806. Tongues of dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) extend to 1 to 2 inches into upper part of this horizon from the A horizon. Sandstone fragments up to 2 inches in diameter common.
    E2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak fine granular, and weak subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009807. Sandstone fragments up to 2 inches in diameter common.
    Bw1—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films and clay bridges; 12 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # OSU0009808. Sandstone fragments up to 2 inches in diameter common.; patchy - phpvsfiid 976099; patchy - phpvsfiid 976099
    Bw2—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films and clay bridges; 12 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009809. Sandstone fragments up to 2 inches in diameter common.; patchy - phpvsfiid 976101; patchy - phpvsfiid 976101
    BC—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; massive; firm; faint clay films; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009810. Friable when crushed. Coarse skeleton of sandstone fragments up to 4 inches in diameter.; patchy - phpvsfiid 976103; patchy - phpvsfiid 976103
    C1—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; single grain; friable; 75 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # OSU0009811. Sandy loam makes up about 25% of horizon; rest is oxidized sandstone fragments.
    C2—74 to 81 centimeters (29.1 to 31.9 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # OSU0009812. Reddish brown sandstone with small amounts of weathered sandy loam materials in thin spacings between rock layers.