IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Birkbeck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970OH057021
  • User Pedon ID: 1970-OH057-021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - GN-021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70638
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1.9 mi. N of Jamestown. Smith farm, 125 ft. E of Brickel Rd. and 200 yds. NW of gate and farm lane leading to well.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH057—Greene

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: garner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Birkbeck
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020296
    E—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020297. This horizon is of variable thickness and absent in some pedons.
    BEt—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats and 15 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020298. patchy - phpvsfiid 979902; patchy - phpvsfiid 979902
    Bt—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and strong subangular blocky structure; firm; prominent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020299. Strong, medium subangular blocky structure parts to fine subangular and angular blocky structure.; continuous - phpvsfiid 979903; continuous - phpvsfiid 979903
    BCt—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak very coarse subangular blocky, and platy structure; friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 11 percent coarse yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent coarse grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020300. Some of the peds are 4 to 8 inches across. No clay films observed inside the peds. Roots extend to the C horizon along the ped faces. Common calcite concretions are mostly 0.25 inch in diameter, but some are as long as 1 inch. Calcareous in ped interiors,; continuous - phpvsfiid 979904; continuous - phpvsfiid 979905; continuous - phpvsfiid 979904; continuous - phpvsfiid 979905
    2C—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; massive; firm; 11 percent coarse faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium and coarse distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 8 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # OSU0020301. Common large inclusions in the till that have 5YR and 7.5YR hues.