IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aaron
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH001S21
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH001-S21
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AD-s21
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71726
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Tiffin Twp. 1.6 mi. ESE of West Union on Chestnut Ridge Rd. and 125 yds. W in field on Roy Gabbert farm. Sample site is approximately 300 yds. W of site AD-S20.
  • 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: Lacustrine; 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    8

    243.8

    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014844. Mixture of A and B horizon materials.
    Bt1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014845. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet.
    2Bt2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats; 11 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014846. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 977908; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 977908
    2Bt3—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak medium prismatic, and moderate angular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films; 33 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014847. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet.; patchy - phpvsfiid 977909; patchy - phpvsfiid 977909
    2Bt4—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak medium prismatic, and moderate angular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films; 33 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014848. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet.; patchy - phpvsfiid 977906; patchy - phpvsfiid 977906
    2BC1—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films; 1 percent fine iron-manganese nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # OSU0014849. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet.; patchy - phpvsfiid 977910; patchy - phpvsfiid 977910
    2BC2—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) Error; firm; 10 percent fine iron-manganese nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # OSU0014850. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet.
    3C—122 to 218 centimeters (48.0 to 85.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) Error; firm; 10 percent fine iron-manganese nodules; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # OSU0014851. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet. Gradual increase in pH with depth to 6.6 at 86 inches.