IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979OH175028
  • User Pedon ID: 1979OH175028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - WY-028
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72489
  • 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: 40.8798694
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3188528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 12
  • Location Description: 1400 ft. N and 1200 ft. E of the SW corner of
  • Map Unit: Blg1A1—Blount silt loam, ground moraine, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH175—Wyandot
  • MLRA: 111—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH175—Wyandot County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40083-H3—McCutchenville, Ohio
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: STEIGER/ HENDERSHOT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Ochraqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1979
  • Classifier - STEIGER/ HENDERSHOT
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 28 cm of Depth to carbonates


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan till
  • Landform: Fort Wayne ground moraine on Wisconsin till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    253

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; 11 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024108. Field texture was silt loam.
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate subangular blocky structure; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024109. Field texture was silty clay loam.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1007185; continuous - phpvsfiid 1007185
    Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate subangular blocky structure; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent medium faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024110. Field texture was silty clay loam.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1007186; continuous - phpvsfiid 1007186
    Cg2—50 to 70 centimeters (19.7 to 27.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; massive; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    Btg—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak subangular blocky structure; distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024111. Field texture was silty clay.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1007187; patchy - phpvsfiid 1007187
    BCg—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024112. patchy - phpvsfiid 1007188; patchy - phpvsfiid 1007188
    Cg1—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; massive; 35 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate coats; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024113
    Cg—127 to 178 centimeters (50.0 to 70.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; massive; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0024114. Field texture was silty clay loam.