IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mertz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH005011
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH005-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AS-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69154
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Hanover Twp., Sec. 22, SW4 of SE4; Photo No. CLS-2G-132.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH005—Ashland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. J. Baker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mertz
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Litz
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone + siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1962 (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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; fine granular structure; friable; 35 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014663. Most fragments less than 1.5 inches across; a few range up to 4 or 6 inches in length and 1.5 inches thick.
    E—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) Error; fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014664. Fine-grained sandstone fragments have 5Y 7/1-7/2 interiors and 10YR 5/6 edges on fresthly broken surfaces, many black stains on fragment surfaces and along interior cracks.
    Bt1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films; 50 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014665. Fragments range up to 6 inches in length.; continuous - phpvsfiid 978391; continuous - phpvsfiid 978391
    Bt2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Siltstone fragments with 10YR 5/8 interiors, ranging up to 1.5 inches across.; continuous - phpvsfiid 978392; continuous - phpvsfiid 978392
    BC—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; 70 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. 5YR 4/4 mottles occur where materials lie adjacent to rock strata. Weathered fine-grained sandstone and siltstone. Soil sample was scraped from surfaces between rock strata.; continuous - phpvsfiid 978393; continuous - phpvsfiid 978393
    R—53 to 58 centimeters (20.9 to 22.8 inches); fragments. Siltstone and fine-grained sandstone with very small quantities of soil materials in voids; cannot be chipped out with spade.