IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961OH001S13
  • User Pedon ID: 1961-OH001-S13
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AD-s13
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69371
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Tiffin Twp. 0.45 mi. SSE of the County courthouse on SR 247; 0.1 mi. N of the village sewage treatment plant, and 30 ft. W of the road (SR 247). Site located inside the corporate limits of the village of West Union.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH001—Adams

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: shumate, tabb
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otway
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Fluvio-lacustrine; Shale
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    20

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    268.2

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013635. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet. Alkaline.
    2Bt1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) Error; weak coarse prismatic, and weak angular blocky structure; very firm; 11 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013636. Very sticky and very plastic when wet.
    2Bt2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) Error; weak coarse prismatic, and weak angular blocky structure; very firm; medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium distinct gray (N 6/), moist, masses of reduced iron and 33 percent medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013637. Very sticky and very plastic when wet.
    2C—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); gray (N 6/), Error; very firm; 33 percent fine and medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0013638. Finely laminated structure of the underlying shale beds. Very sticky and very plastic when wet.