IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961OH081002
  • User Pedon ID: 1961-OH081-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - JF-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69739
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: 1100 E of intersection of county line road & N section line & 100 S in an old abandoned field on H.K. Shaw farm 2mi S of East Springfield.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH081—Jefferson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: dunlavy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013422. occ. SS frags up to 1/2? diameter
    BC—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) Error; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013423. SS frags & channers up to 4? on long axis
    Cr—48 to 51 centimeters (18.9 to 20.1 inches); fragments. fractured sandstone