IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1983OH013027
  • User Pedon ID: 1983OH013027
  • User Site Association ID: OH013HistoricSpoil
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69229
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.0867167
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1089917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 34
  • Location Description: 1840 feet east and 1480 feet north of the southwest corner of section 34, T18N*, R5W *this township and range is in Mahoning County, OH, we believe it was a typo and should be T8N, R5W
  • Map Unit: Mwi1F1—Morristown silt loam, 25 to 70 percent slopes, reclaimed, highwall
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH013—Belmont
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH013—Belmont County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40081-A1—Bethesda, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Neil Rubel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, spolic, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Anthroportic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2015
  • 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 - 3/18/1983
  • Classifier - T. Neil Rubel
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/18/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—10

    0—152

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    —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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    323.1

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) stony clay loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; common (3.3) fine roots; 3 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 9 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 18 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 251-300-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025161
    C1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very channery clay loam; 12 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) prominent and 21 percent pale olive (5Y 6/4) prominent mottles; massive; firm; 4 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 14 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 27 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025162
    C2—25 to 152 centimeters (9.8 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) extremely channery clay loam; massive; firm; 6 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 18 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 36 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0025163