IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976OH013016
  • User Pedon ID: 1976-OH013-016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69372
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 20
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH013—Belmont
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RUBEL/PLUNKETT/JENNY
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone + siltstone + shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/1976 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    371.9

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    315

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) Error; weak medium granular structure; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022992
    C—10 to 89 centimeters (3.9 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; massive; 11 percent coarse distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent coarse distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # OSU0022993