IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976OH013023
  • User Pedon ID: 1976OH013023
  • User Site Association ID: OH013HistoricSpoil
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72341
  • 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: 40.1029917
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1093139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 35
  • Location Description: 1660 feet east and 2100 feet north of the southwest corner of section 35, T8N, R5W
  • Map Unit: Mwr1B1—Morristown silt loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, reclaimed
  • 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-A1—Bethesda, 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: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/2015
  • 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
  • Classificaton Date - 12/21/1976
  • 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: reclaimed land
  • 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: 12/21/1976 (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—10

    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

    4

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    323.1

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many (6.7) fine roots; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0023007
    C1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) very gravelly clay loam; 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.3) fine roots; 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0023008
    C2—25 to 102 centimeters (9.8 to 40.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) very gravelly clay loam; 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) coarse distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; massive; firm; 45 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # OSU0023008