IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH119021
  • User Pedon ID: 1981OH119021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MS-021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70498
  • 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 - 11/20/2015
  • 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 - 8/4/1981
  • 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: 8/4/1981 (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—25

    0—152

    —25—

    —152—
    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

    4

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    326.1

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    225

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.3) fine roots; 5 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024588
    A2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; strong coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium platy structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 5 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024589
    C—25 to 152 centimeters (9.8 to 59.8 inches); variegated 90 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and 5 percent greenish gray (5GY 5/1) very channery clay loam; massive; friable; 40 percent by volume sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0024590, OSU0024591, OSU0024592