IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH119018
  • User Pedon ID: 1981OH119018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MS-018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70299
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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 - 11/18/2015
  • 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 siltstone
  • 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

    human-transported material

    ochric epipedon

    0—157

    0—33

    —157—

    —33—
    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

    19

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    310.9

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    225

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); variegated 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; many (6.5) medium roots; 4 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024569
    A2—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); variegated 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 25 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 4 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024570
    C1—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); variegated 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 20 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 20 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 20 percent gray (N 6/), and 5 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) very channery clay loam; massive; firm; 50 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024571
    C2—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); variegated 35 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 20 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 20 percent gray (N 6/), very channery silty clay loam; massive; firm; 35 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024572
    C3—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); variegated 60 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 20 percent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) and 10 percent gray (N 6/), and 10 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) very channery loam; massive; firm; 35 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024573
    C4—130 to 157 centimeters (51.2 to 61.8 inches); variegated 60 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 20 percent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) and 10 percent gray (N 6/), and 10 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) very channery loam; massive; firm; 35 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0024574