IDENTIFIERS
Current Taxon Name (Soil Name):
Westmoreland
OSD
Series Extent
User Site ID:
1961OH115007
User Pedon ID:
1961-OH115-007
Lab Information:
Certified Lab Pedon Description -
no
Lab Source ID -
OHSTATE
Lab Pedon # -
MO-007
NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID -
71206
Print Date:
12/17/2024
LOCATION
Township:
UNION
Section:
35
PLSS Details:
SE 1/4
Location Description:
2400 east and 200 south of junction of SR 555 and Union Twp. Rd. 102 in of Sec. 35, Union Twp. on Ohio Division of Wildlife land. Abandoned pasture
State:
Ohio
County:
OH115—Morgan
MLRA:
126—Central Allegheny Plateau
PEDON
Describers Name:
John Dunlavy
Pedon Record Orgin:
NASIS
Correlated Information:
Soil Name -
Westmoreland
Classificaton Date -
5/4/2012
Dynamic Soil Properties:
Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator -
no
Hydric:
no
SITE
Parent Material:
Sandstone + limestone
Drainage Class:
well
Surface Fragments:
Benchmark Soil?:
no
VEGETATION
SITE OBSERVATION
Observation Date:
8/18/1961 (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
11
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317
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135
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Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak very fine granular structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013442. Brown silt loam. sample # 13442
A—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013443. Dark yellowish brown heavy silt loam. sample # 13443
A—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013444. Dark brown heavy silt loam. sample # 13444
B—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013445. Dark brown silty clay. sample # 13445
B—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 11 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013446. Dark brown clay with dark red common, prominent, medium mottles; occasional grey mottles and a few black coatings on ped faces. sample # 13446
C—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 33 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent medium prominent pale olive (5Y 6/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013447. Dark brown clay with many dark red and pale olive prominent, medium mottles; appears to be highly weathered clay shale. sample # 13447
R—122 to 127 centimeters (48.0 to 50.0 inches); Error; fragments. Fractured, porous rock; appears to be limestone residue; does not effervesce with hydrochloric acid; black coating in seams. Not sampled.