IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keene
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984OH075005
  • User Pedon ID: 1984OH075005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HL-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70413
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 40.5002306
  • Std. Longitude: -81.9058389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 10
  • Location Description: 2565 ft. N and 1500 ft. E of SW corner of Sec. 10; T8N R7W.
  • Map Unit: KeB—Keene silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH075—Holmes
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH075—Holmes County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40081-E8—Millersburg, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Graham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/7/2014
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/1984
  • Classifier - Tom Graham
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silt mantle over residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated siltstone, unspecified at 193cm
  • Geology: Allegheny/pottsville group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    193 - 198

    - 5 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—25

    43—94

    43—94

    51—198

    193—198

    —25—

    —51—

    —51—

    —147—

    —5—
    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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    356.6

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; few (0.8) medium roots and common (4.6) fine roots; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025603
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.7) fine roots; 19 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 43 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025604
    Bt2—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.6) fine roots; 39 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 16 percent fine prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025605
    2Bt3—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.6) fine roots; 66 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 17 percent fine prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025606
    2Bt4—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.4) fine roots; 44 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 16 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and 17 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 7 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025608, OSU0025607
    2BC1—94 to 130 centimeters (37.0 to 51.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 32 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 14 percent fine prominent gray (N 6/), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025610, OSU0025609
    2BC2—130 to 145 centimeters (51.2 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025611
    2C—145 to 193 centimeters (57.1 to 76.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; massive; firm; 13 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 10 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025614, OSU0025613, OSU0025612
    2R—193 to 198 centimeters (76.0 to 78.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.