IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH163001
  • User Pedon ID: 1981-OH163-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - VT-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70191
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 11
  • Location Description: 1175 S and 3000 W of NE corner Sec. 11 T.10N R.17W
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH163—Vinton

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rubel/ Underwood
  • 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: 8/26/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 30 percent 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), Error; strong medium platy structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024723
    C1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) Error; massive; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024724
    C2—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); 55 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 25 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; massive; 55 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024725
    C3—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) Error; massive; 60 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # OSU0024726. Note: C3 has 15% coarse fragments greater than 3 inches. Coarse fragments are 60% shale and 40% siltstone in C2; coarse fragments are 85% sandstone and 15% shale in C3.