IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH119019
  • User Pedon ID: 1981OH119019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MS-019
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69216
  • 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 - 11/18/2015
  • 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
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    human-transported material

    0—23

    0—157

    —23—

    —157—
    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

    2

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    313.9

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    90

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); variegated 80 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 20 percent 2.5Y 3/4 (2.5Y 3/4) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many (6.9) fine roots; 10 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024575
    A2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); variegated 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 20 percent 2.5Y 3/4 (2.5Y 3/4) and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; common (3.3) fine roots; 10 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024576
    C1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); variegated 70 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 20 percent gray (N 6/), and 10 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) very channery loam; massive; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 50 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024577
    C2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); variegated 70 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 20 percent gray (N 6/), and 10 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) very channery loam; massive; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 50 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024578
    C3—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); variegated 70 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 20 percent gray (N 6/), and 10 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) extremely channery loam; massive; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 80 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024579
    C4—102 to 157 centimeters (40.2 to 61.8 inches); variegated 60 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 20 percent gray (N 6/), and 20 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) extremely channery loam; massive; friable; 80 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0024580