IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossmoyne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959OH165031
  • User Pedon ID: 1959-OH165-031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - WA-031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69114
  • Print Date: 5/12/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Approximately 7 1/2 mi. ESE of Lebanon at intersection of St.Rt. 350 and Middleboro Rd. Sampled 200 ft. E of Middleboro Rd. and 150 ft. N of Rt. 350.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH165—Warren

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: garner, roseler, lerch, donaldson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossmoyne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Illinoian till; Shale + limestone
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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
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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009723
    A1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009724
    A21—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 33 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009725
    A22—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0009726
    A23—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; manganese coatings lining pores and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # OSU0009727. This is the zone of maximum degradation on the ped faces. Few yellowish borwn mottles 10YR 5/8-6/8 ranging in size from fine to coarse. ped interiors contain limonite concretions.
    B1—76 to 93 centimeters (29.9 to 36.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 33 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0009728
    B21—93 to 104 centimeters (36.6 to 40.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # OSU0009729. Clay flows are thick but peds do not appear to break along clay flows.; continuous - phpvsfiid 976255; continuous - phpvsfiid 976255
    B22—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; prominent clay films; 1 percent medium faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 33 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0009730. few gravel and sand fragments indicating this horizon weathered from till.; continuous - phpvsfiid 976256; continuous - phpvsfiid 976256
    B23—127 to 142 centimeters (50.0 to 55.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; very firm; 11 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0009731. Contains many igneous pebbles and fragments of weathered shale.
    142 to 168 centimeters (55.9 to 66.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) Error; massive; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0009732. Calcareous shale and limestone; material is still calcareous, but weathered enough for sample tube to penetrate 10? into it without difficulty.