IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hanover
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1966OH139005
  • User Pedon ID: 1966-OH139-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - RC-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70611
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Section: 11
  • Location Description: SW 160; Worthington Twp.; at curve in road about 80 feet east of the edge of woods.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH139—Richland
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. McCormack, c. redmond, r. jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hanover
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess; Illinoian till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Illinoian formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1966 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0018030
    A1—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; moderate medium platy structure; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0018031. vesicular plate surfaces,
    B1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0018032. patchy degrading zones of light yellowish brown 10YR 6/4; patchy - phpvsfiid 980933; patchy - phpvsfiid 980933
    B—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0018033. very patchy degrading zones of light yellowish-brown 10YR 6/4; a few pebbles (1%); patchy - phpvsfiid 980934; patchy - phpvsfiid 980934
    B—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; faint 10YR (10YR), moist, clay films; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0018034. patchy - phpvsfiid 980935; patchy - phpvsfiid 980935
    Btx1—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); 5/6 5/6) Error; weak thick platy, and moderate angular blocky structure; faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films; 10 percent fine manganese coatings; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0018035. patchy - phpvsfiid 980936; patchy - phpvsfiid 980936
    81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; faint 5/6 5/6, moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0018036. coarse polygons of macrostructure 3 to 5 inches across breaking to weak thick platy, peds are very dense; zones of weathered sandstone are sandier than matrix and comprise 5 to 10 percent of volume; polygons have medium continuous dark yellowish-brown (; continuous - phpvsfiid 980937; continuous - phpvsfiid 980937
    117 to 135 centimeters (46.1 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak medium platy structure; faint black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0018037. ped surface more porous than upper part of pan; with a few vertical partings; patchy - phpvsfiid 980938; patchy - phpvsfiid 980938
    B—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # OSU0018038. consistence firm grading to friable below 66?; some platy chunks of soft weathered light brownish-yellow (10YR 6/4) siltstone; pH at 60?.; patchy - phpvsfiid 980939; patchy - phpvsfiid 980939
    B—178 to 190 centimeters (70.1 to 74.8 inches); 10YR 4/ (10YR 4/), Error; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0018039. patchy - phpvsfiid 980940; patchy - phpvsfiid 980940