IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guernsey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1971OH009009
  • User Pedon ID: 1971-OH009-009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AT-009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70026
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4NE 1/4SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 500 ft. NE of barn on Keith Scott farm; 200 ft. NE of large elm tree on crest of ridge; , , , Lee Twp.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH009—Athens
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Holowaychuk, McCormack, Christman, Shumate, Lessig, McKnight, and Miller.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guernsey
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess; Shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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 4/3) Error; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020896. No coarse fragments.
    BAt—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) Error; fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate angular blocky structure; friable; faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, skeletans and faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020897. Slightly plastic, slightly sticky. Very strongly acid.; patchy - phpvsfiid 979385; patchy - phpvsfiid 979386; patchy - phpvsfiid 979385; patchy - phpvsfiid 979386
    2Bt1—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; weak medium prismatic, and moderate structure; firm; distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, skeletans and faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020898. Slightly plastic, slightly sticky. Very strongly acid.; patchy - phpvsfiid 979387; patchy - phpvsfiid 979388; patchy - phpvsfiid 979387; patchy - phpvsfiid 979388
    2Bt2—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) Error; weak medium prismatic, and moderate structure; firm; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, skeletans and faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020899. Sticky. Very strongly acid.; continuous - phpvsfiid 979389; patchy - phpvsfiid 979390; continuous - phpvsfiid 979389; patchy - phpvsfiid 979390
    2Bt3—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and gray (10YR 6/1) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate angular blocky structure; firm; pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, skeletans and distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020900. Sticky. Very strongly acid.; patchy - phpvsfiid 979391; patchy - phpvsfiid 979392; patchy - phpvsfiid 979391; patchy - phpvsfiid 979392
    2Bt4—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak angular blocky structure; very firm; faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; gray (5Y 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent coarse yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020901. Slightly sticky. Very strongly to extremely acid.; patchy - phpvsfiid 979393; patchy - phpvsfiid 979393
    2BC1—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; platy, and weak angular blocky structure; firm; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent coarse gray (5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020902. Slightly sticky. Very strongly acid.
    2BC2—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) Error; massive; very firm; brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and gray (5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020903. Weak pedogenic cleavage. Plastic, slightly sticky. No roots. Strongly to medium acid.
    2C—127 to 150 centimeters (50.0 to 59.1 inches); light gray (N 7/0) Error; massive; very firm; 11 percent coarse brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0020904. Rotted clay shale. Crushes with medium hand pressure. Neutral.
    2R—150 to 160 centimeters (59.1 to 63.0 inches); fragments. N 7/0 shale. Paralithic. Yellowish brown oxidation in cracks with network pattern of 10YR 2/2 fossil roots. Shale has both soft and slightly hard layers bedded 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.