IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH013024
  • User Pedon ID: 1981OH013024
  • User Site Association ID: OH013HistoricSpoil
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71130
  • 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: 40.0744611
  • Std. Longitude: -81.0304972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 9
  • Location Description: 550 feet north and 100 feet east of center of section 9, T8N, R5W
  • Map Unit: WmC—Westmoreland silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • 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 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/2015
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1981
  • Classifier - T. Neil Rubel
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous coal extraction mine spoil derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Anthropogenic Feature: reclaimed land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Dunkard group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1981 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    human-transported material

    0—36

    0—76

    —36—

    —76—
    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

    5

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    384

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    0

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    A—0 to 36 centimeters (0.0 to 14.2 inches); variegated 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; firm; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter coal fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter siltstone, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024713
    C—36 to 76 centimeters (14.2 to 29.9 inches); variegated 50 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) very channery clay loam; massive; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-150 millimeter coal fragments observed by visual inspection method and 6 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 11 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 33 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0024714