IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tilsit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961OH115004
  • User Pedon ID: 1961-OH115-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MO-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71784
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Sec. 28, Center Twp. 1500 ft. north of Morgan County line on State Route 76 and 400 ft. east in field on ridge top. Julia Grubb farm.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH115—Morgan
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Dunlavy
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone + shale
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1961 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    243.8

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    135

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak fine granular structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013424. Dark grayish brown silt loam. sample # 13424
    A1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013425. Yellowish brown silt loam. sample # 13425
    A1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013426. Dark yellowish brown silt loam. sample # 13426
    B1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 11 percent medium faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013427. Dark yellowish brown silty clay loam with faint, common, medium, light gray and yellowish brown mottles; thick clay skins and faint clay flows. sample # 13427
    B1—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 11 percent coarse distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6 smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013428. Dark yellowish brown silty clay with distinct common coarse light gray and yellowish brown mottles; clay skins and clay flows. sample # 13428
    B1—74 to 127 centimeters (29.1 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium angular blocky structure; clay films; 11 percent coarse distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent coarse distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013429. Yellowish brown silty clay loam with distinct, common, coarse light gray and reddish brown mottles; clay skins and clay flows; occasional dusky red shale fragments. sample # 13429
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; clay films; black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # OSU0013430. Yellowish brown silty clay; gray clay skins on some peds; black coatings on some peds; about 50% of volume is weathered dusky red shale and sandstone fragments up to 3? on long axis. sample # 13430