IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH013025
  • User Pedon ID: 1981OH013025
  • User Site Association ID: OH013HistoricSpoil
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68984
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.0493111
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1023056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 31
  • Location Description: 700 feet west and 1400 feet south of the northeast corner of section 31, T8N, R5W
  • Map Unit: Mwr1D1—Morristown silt loam, 8 to 25 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: Coarse-loamy, spolic, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Anthroportic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • 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
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1981
  • 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: hillslope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: reclaimed land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Monongahela 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 - pastureland, tame
  • 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—20

    0—76

    —20—

    —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

    3

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    310.9

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    180

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); variegated 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 5 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.3) roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024715
    C—20 to 76 centimeters (7.9 to 29.9 inches); variegated 55 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 5 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) channery clay loam; massive; very firm; few (0.7) roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0024716. No coarse fragment quantity reported. Texture is channery; of that 70% is limestone; 25% shale and 5% coal.