IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962OH041038
  • User Pedon ID: 1962OH041038
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - DL-038
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69746
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.3399194
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0200000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 2
  • Location Description: 30 ft. S of Brown Twp.Rd.219; .1 mi. E from junction of Brown Twp. Rd. 276; 2 mi. SW of Leonardsburg.
  • Map Unit: Blg1A1—Blount silt loam, ground moraine, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH041—Delaware
  • MLRA: 111B—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: stone, matanzo
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/2013
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/1962 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013858
    BEtg—23 to 37 centimeters (9.1 to 14.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 11 percent fine faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013859
    Btg1—37 to 53 centimeters (14.6 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 11 percent medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # OSU0013860. Field texture was clay.
    Btg2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay loam; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 11 percent medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013861. Field texture was clay.
    C1—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0013862. Contains a few pebbles and shale fragments.; Field texture was clay loam.
    C2—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0013863. Contains a few pebbles and shale fragments.
    C3—112 to 132 centimeters (44.1 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; massive; firm; 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0013864. Contains a few pebbles and shale fragments.