IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upshur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961OH019W15
  • User Pedon ID: 1961OH019W15
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CA-w15
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73223
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SW 1/4
  • Location Description: 1.3 mi. W and .4 mi. S of Dellroy in the of of Sec. 6. Monroe Twp. Helen smith farm, Muskingum conservancy District land.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH019—Carroll

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Herbert Black; Niles McLoda
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • Classificaton Date - 12/24/2013
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Classifier - Niles McLoda
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    25

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013290
    A2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013291
    B1—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013292
    B2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) Error; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine distinct red (10R 4/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013293
    C1—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); gray (5YR 6/1) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) Error; massive; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013294. Massive structure breaks along weak structure faces.
    C2—66 to 109 centimeters (26.0 to 42.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) and gray (10YR 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; massive; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013295. Underlain by siltstone bedrock.
    R—109 to 114 centimeters (42.9 to 44.9 inches); fragments.