IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Coshocton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961OH119S05
  • User Pedon ID: 1961-OH119-S05
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MS-s05
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69888
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Northwest Appalachian Conservation Experiment Station, Zanesville, Hopewell Twp. Center of of Sec. 11; 400 ft. S of road intersection. Site is due west of house on old pasture Experiment Plot.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH119—Muskingum

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: meeker, schafer, dunlavy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Coshocton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Shale + siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/29/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    16

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    298.7

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011985
    BE—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011986
    B1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films; 33 percent fine and medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of reduced iron and 33 percent fine and medium prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011987. Mottles of each color are present in equal proportions.
    B2—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 33 percent fine and medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent fine and medium prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011988. Mottles of each color are present in equal proportions. Coarse skeleton of flat sandstone and shale fragments 1 to 3 inches in diameter.; continuous - phpvsfiid 977553; continuous - phpvsfiid 977553
    2BC—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films on faces of peds; 33 percent fine and medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent fine and medium prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011989. Mottles of each color are present in equal proportions. Nonsticky. Coarse skeleton of flat sandstone and shale fragments. The broken surfaces of the sandstone fragments are strong brown (7.5 YR 5/6).; continuous - phpvsfiid 977554; continuous - phpvsfiid 977554
    3C1—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); Error; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 33 percent medium brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011990. Mottles of each color are present in equal proportions. Nonsticky. Coarse skeleton of flat micaceous sandstone fragments 1 to 2 inches in diameter.
    3C2—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); Error; massive; faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 33 percent medium and coarse prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent medium and coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # OSU0011991. Massive shale material. Much of the structure appearance and cleavage faces inherent in shale originally is prominently in evidence.; continuous - phpvsfiid 977556; continuous - phpvsfiid 977556
    3C3—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); fragments. Coal blossom (auger investigation). Not sampled.
    3C4—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); fragments. Fire clay (auger investigation). Not sampled.