IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1963OH073010
  • User Pedon ID: 1963-OH073-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HO-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69151
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Neotoma Valley; 50 ft. from base of upper cliff on east side of valley; directly on crest of interfluve with long axis directly down main slope. Interfluve is directly behind instrument shack.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH073—Hocking

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: j.h. petro, v. l. riemenschneider
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • 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: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/1963 (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

    36

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    286.5

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # OSU0015991. Dark brown partially decomposed deciduous leaf litter; predominantly chestnut oak.
    A—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) Error; fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015992
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; fine granular structure; very friable; 22 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015993
    EB—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak medium granular structure; friable; 22 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015994
    BE—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # OSU0015995
    B—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015996
    R—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4. Predominantly somewhat-fractured, medium-grained Black Hand sandstone. Various degrees of weathering ranging from hard and massive sections to yellowish brown soft and crumbling loamy sand or sand. Not sampled.