IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH119016
  • User Pedon ID: 1981OH119016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MS-016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72274
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 17
  • Location Description: Sec. 17, Meigs Twp.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH119—Muskingum
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH119—Muskingum County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39081-G7—Ruraldale, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Hall; Neil Smeck; Bill Jaynes
  • 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 - 11/17/2015
  • 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 - 8/3/1981
  • Classifier - George Hall
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1981 (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—12

    0—107

    —12—

    —104—
    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

    7

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    324.6

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    225

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); variegated 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; many (6.0) medium roots; 10 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024556
    A2—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); variegated 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 5 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) channery clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.3) fine roots; 15 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024557
    C1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); variegated 45 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 10 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 5 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) very channery silty clay loam; massive; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 40 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024558, OSU0024559
    C2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); variegated 45 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 10 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 5 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) channers; massive; firm; 90 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024560
    C3—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); variegated 25 percent olive (5Y 5/3) and 25 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) channers; massive; firm; 90 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0024561