IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Miner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH093017
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH093-017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - LR-017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70116
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Eaton Twp., .25 mi. south of Cooley Rd., .37 mi. west of Hawke Rd. and 228 degrees. 5.5 mi. from Olmsted Falls (Cuyhoga Co. ) on Gordon Hales farm, 200 yds. south of farm buildings and 150 feet west of lane near the junction of three shallow watercourses
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH093—Lorain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. C. Roseler, J. O. Evans, J. K. Donaldson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Mollic Epiaqualfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Miner
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 67 cm of Depth to carbonates


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013695
    E—18 to 34 centimeters (7.1 to 13.4 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013696. Boundary tongues into BE horizon.
    BE—34 to 58 centimeters (13.4 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013697
    B1—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013698. Degraded peds in upper portion and a few, thick (1 inch) vertical clay flows in lower portion.
    B2—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic structure; prominent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0013699. Interiors flecked with dark mineral stains.
    B3—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic structure; prominent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013701. Sample of clay flows in B3 horizon.
    B3—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic structure; prominent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013702. Sample of ped interiors in B3 horizon.
    B3—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic structure; prominent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013700. Interiors flecked with dark mineral stains.
    2B4—114 to 127 centimeters (44.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 5/1) and brown (10YR 5/3) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013703. Intermingled matrix colors. Coarse skeleton is 1-inch pebbles. This is an alluvial layer with a high content of red shale and sandstone. It is now vertically dissected by thick clay flows.
    3B5—127 to 170 centimeters (50.0 to 66.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; massive, and weak subangular blocky; gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments. Lab sample # OSU0013704. Clay flows thinning out with depth. Roots occasional along flows.
    4B6—170 to 180 centimeters (66.9 to 70.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0013705. Sandy loam alluvial layer or sand lense in the till.
    5C1—180 to 224 centimeters (70.9 to 88.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0013706. Loam till.
    5C2—224 to 267 centimeters (88.2 to 105.1 inches); dark gray (N 4/), Error; 11 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0013707. Mottles are thread-like and do not occur below 100 inches.