IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paulding
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1954-OH039-002
  • User Pedon ID: S1954OH039002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - DF-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71815
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 41.3552666
  • Std. Longitude: -84.3610077
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 26
  • Location Description: Four and one half miles north of Defiance. One hundred feet west and 40 feet north of south east corner Sec. (Tiffin Twp) Lat & Long approx.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH039—Defiance
  • MLRA: 99—Erie-Huron Lake Plain
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ivancic, Jones, Van dine, Holowaychuk
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, illitic, nonacid, mesic Typic Epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paulding
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan lacustrine
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/1954 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    18—84

    —18—

    —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

    0

    218.5

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; many fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001070. Structure is moderate medium angular blocky in the lower 2 inches. Sightly acid. Dry color: 2.5Y 6/2.
    Bg1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; common fine roots between peds; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001071. Medium acid. Dry color: 2.5Y 6/2 and 7/2.
    Bg2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak angular blocky structure; very firm; few fine roots between peds; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001072. Slightly acid. Dry color: 2.5Y 6/2.
    Bg3—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; few fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001073. Neutral. Dry color: 2.5Y 6/2.
    Cg1—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 11 percent medium faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001074. Some white calcareous splotches.
    Cg21—107 to 137 centimeters (42.1 to 53.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; massive; firm; 1 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on vertical faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # OSU0001075. Some white calcareous splotches. Some small pebbles and shale fragments present. Samples with auger. Dry color: 2.5Y 7/2.
    Cg22—137 to 160 centimeters (53.9 to 63.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; massive; firm; 1 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on top faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # OSU0001076. Some shale fragments and pebbles present. Sampled with auger. Dry color: 2.5Y 7/2.