IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972OH013021
  • User Pedon ID: 1972OH013021
  • User Site Association ID: OH013HistoricSpoil
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69131
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.0865830
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1872780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 22
  • Location Description: 2250 feet east and 1450 feet north of the southwest corner of section 22, T9N, R6W
  • Map Unit: Mwn4D1—Morristown channery silt loam, 8 to 25 percent slopes, unreclaimed
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH013—Belmont
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH013—Belmont County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40081-A2—Fairview, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Neil Rubel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2015
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1972
  • Classifier - T. Neil Rubel
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coal extraction mine spoil derived from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Anthropogenic Feature: spoil bank
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Monongahela group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    human-transported material

    0—13

    0—152

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    —152—
    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

    3

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    353.6

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) gravelly clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, extremely firm; common (3.3) fine roots; 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0023003
    C1—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); variegated dark gray (5Y 4/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery clay loam; massive; slightly hard, extremely firm; common (2.1) fine roots; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0023004
    C2—46 to 94 centimeters (18.1 to 37.0 inches); variegated dark gray (5Y 4/1) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and black (N 2/), very channery clay loam; massive; firm; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.
    C3—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery loam; massive; friable; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions.