IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brecksville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975OH035003
  • User Pedon ID: 1975-OH035-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CY-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73033
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Approx. 4165 ft. E of the intersection of S.O.M. Center Road and Highland Road.; approx. 85 ft. E of Strawberry Lane in North Chagrin Reservation, Cleveland Metropolitan Parks, Mayfield.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH035—Cuyahoga

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Musgrave, Hahn, & Halloran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brecksville
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: shale
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1975 (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

    65

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022073
    B1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022074
    B21—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 7 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022075
    B22—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; weak thin platy structure; firm; 1 percent fine faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022076
    B3—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; weak thin platy structure; firm; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022077. Underlain by 2.5Y 4/4 soft thin bedded shale, 7.5YR 4/4 on plate surfaces.
    Cr—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # OSU0022078