IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keene
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984OH119025
  • User Pedon ID: 1984OH119025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MS-025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72567
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.0742556
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1107806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 9W
  • Location Description: 366 meters E and 61 meters N of intersection of T.R. 304 and T.R. 119, Sec. 19; T2N R9W.
  • Map Unit: KeC2—Keene silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH119—Muskingum
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH119—Muskingum County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40082-A1—Dresden, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Steiger; Margaret Sams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2013
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene silt loam
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Allegheny/pottsville group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/1984 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    188 - 254

    - 66 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic materials

    0—20

    20—97

    33—188

    76—254

    188—254

    —20—

    —77—

    —155—

    —178—

    —66—
    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

    10

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    298.7

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; many (6.9) fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025336; observed in pit, small
    BE—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.8) fine roots; 37 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025337; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 66 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 16 percent medium prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses and 20 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025338; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium platy structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 69 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 17 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent medium prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses and 23 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025339; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate thick platy structure; very firm; 62 percent faint gray (5Y 6/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 30 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025340; observed in pit, small
    2BC—97 to 147 centimeters (38.2 to 57.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate thick platy structure; very firm; 37 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 13 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 10 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025341; observed in pit, small
    2C—147 to 155 centimeters (57.9 to 61.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; 40 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm; 16 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 17 percent medium prominent gray (N 6/), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025342; observed in auger, bucket
    2Cr1—188 to 226 centimeters (74.0 to 89.0 inches); bedrock; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified.; observed in auger, bucket
    2Cr2—226 to 254 centimeters (89.0 to 100.0 inches); black (N 2/0) bedrock; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified.; observed in auger, bucket