IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976OH013022
  • User Pedon ID: 1976OH013022
  • User Site Association ID: OH013HistoricSpoil
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70668
  • 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: 40.1532306
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9541306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 21
  • Location Description: 1620 feet west and 80 feet south of the center of section 21, T8N, R4W
  • Map Unit: Mwn4B1—Morristown channery silt loam, 0 to 8 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: 40080-B8—Harrisville, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Neil Rubel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, spolic, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Anthroportic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/2015
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/1976
  • Classifier - T. Neil Rubel
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    human-transported material

    0—8

    0—102

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    —102—
    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

    2

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    378

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); variegated 85 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 5 percent gray (10YR 5/1) gravelly silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (2.0) roots; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter coal fragments observed by visual inspection method and 4 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 14 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0023005
    C—8 to 102 centimeters (3.1 to 40.2 inches); variegated 60 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 20 percent gray (5Y 6/1) and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 5 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) very gravelly silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; massive; friable; common (2.0) roots; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter coal fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0023006