IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steinsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH009W04
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH009-W04
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AT-W04
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70977
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4SE 1/4
  • Location Description: , , Waterloo Twp. Waterloo Wildlife area at junction of state routes 56 and 356 approximately 7 miles west of Athens. Plot located 0.7 miles west of Division Headquarters along main ridge access road. 550 feet north and parallel to line
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH009—Athens
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Baker, K. Wenner, R. Meeker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Steinsburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/27/1962 (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

    38

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    274.3

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014447. estimated permeability moderate rapid; no coarse skeleton;
    Oi—3 to 3 centimeters (1.2 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Discontinuous oak leaf litter with poverty grass and moss.
    Ap—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014448. estimated permeability moderate; this horizon appears to be a relic plow layer with a re-generated A1 horizon;
    Bw1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014449. estimated permeability moderate; 20% coarse skeleton of sandstone fragments 1 X 2 X 3?;
    Bw2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014450. estimated permeability moderate; 20% coarse skeleton of sandstone fragments 1 X 2 X 3?;
    R—51 to 56 centimeters (20.1 to 22.0 inches); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Weakly bonded, coarse grained sandstone bedrock.