IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH119017
  • User Pedon ID: 1981OH119017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MS-017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72238
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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 Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • 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: hillslope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: reclaimed land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • 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—20

    0—140

    —20—

    —140—
    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

    14

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    318.5

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    225

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); variegated 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 25 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) 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; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024562
    A2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); variegated 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 20 percent dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.9) fine roots; 10 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024563
    C1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); variegated 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 20 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 10 percent dark gray (N 4/), very channery 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 # OSU0024564
    C2—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); variegated 40 percent black (N 2/), and 30 percent dark gray (N 4/), and 15 percent 5Y 4/6 (5Y 4/6) and 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 5 percent light gray (5Y 7/1) extremely channery clay loam; massive; firm; 60 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024565
    C3—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); variegated 35 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 30 percent black (N 2/), and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 10 percent olive (5Y 5/3) and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very channery silty clay loam; massive; firm; 40 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024566
    C4—81 to 140 centimeters (31.9 to 55.1 inches); variegated 25 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 10 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 10 percent 10BG 5/2 (10BG 5/2) and 5 percent black (10YR 2/1) very channery silty clay loam; massive; firm; 40 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0024567, OSU0024568