IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aaron
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH001S20
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH001-S20
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AD-s20
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72285
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Tiffin Twp. 1.9 mi. ESE of West Union on Chestnut Ridge Rd. and 125 yds. N into field from old house site on Roy Gabbert farm.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH001—Adams

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: meeker, shumate, hendrix
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aaron
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bentonville
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Colluvium; Shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014838
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, silt coats and faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine iron-manganese nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014839. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 977903; patchy - phpvsfiid 977904; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 977903; patchy - phpvsfiid 977904
    Bt2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, silt coats and faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine iron-manganese nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014840. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 977900; patchy - phpvsfiid 977901; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 977900; patchy - phpvsfiid 977901
    Bt3—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium prismatic, and weak angular blocky structure; firm; faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 10 percent medium iron-manganese nodules and 33 percent fine and medium distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014841. Slightly sticky and plastic when wet.; continuous - phpvsfiid 977905; continuous - phpvsfiid 977905
    Bt4—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium prismatic, and weak angular blocky structure; firm; faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 10 percent medium iron-manganese nodules and 33 percent fine and medium distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014842. Slightly sticky and plastic when wet.; continuous - phpvsfiid 977902; continuous - phpvsfiid 977902
    2C—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) Error; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4. Lab sample # OSU0014843. Slightly sticky and very plastic when wet. Roots concentrated along cleavage faces. Locally calcareous.
    2R—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); fragments. Calcareous clay shale.