IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH009W06
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH009-W06
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AT-W06
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70719
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4NE 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 1.8 miles west of Division Headquarters along main ridge access road. 150 feet north of road.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH009—Athens
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

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


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Shale
  • 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

    24

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    292.6

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    315

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) Error; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. estimated permeability moderate;
    E—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014456. estimated permeability moderate;
    Oi—5 to 5 centimeters (2.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Oak leaf litter with trace of mull layer.
    Bw1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014457. estimated permeability moderate;
    Bw2—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014458. estimated permeability moderately slow;
    Bt—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 11 percent medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014459. estimated permeability moderately slow; 25% coarse skeleton of gray and olive shale fragments; continuous - phpvsfiid 977846; continuous - phpvsfiid 977846
    BC—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014460. estimated permeability slow;
    R—61 to 66 centimeters (24.0 to 26.0 inches); fragments. Gray and olive shale bedrock