IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH105W01
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH105-W01
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MG-w01
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69230
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4SW 1/4
  • Location Description: , Sec. 13 Chester Twp. 1.4 miles N from junction of road leading north out of chester and St.Rt. 248. Turn back SE on old lane for 500 ft. Cross stream and up slope for 140 ft.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH105—Meigs

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: baker, meeker, wenner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • 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: 3/28/1962 (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

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Oak leaf litter scattered and discontinuous over the plot area. Some moss patches (3 to 4 feet across) scattered over plot area. Not sampled.
    A1—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014377. Estimated permeability is moderately rapid. Some scattered sandstone rock fragments on surface - 1 rock (1 x 3 inches) per square yard.
    A2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014378. Estimated permeability is moderately rapid.
    B1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # OSU0014379. Estimated permeability is moderately rapid. Coarse skeleton of 1 inch x 1inch x 2 inch sandstone fragments.
    B2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014380. Estimated permeability is moderately rapid. Coarse skeleton of 1 inch x 1inch x 2 inch sandstone fragments.
    R—56 to 61 centimeters (22.0 to 24.0 inches); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Coarse grained sandstone bedrock that appears to be in place. Not sampled.