IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956OH161S01
  • User Pedon ID: S1956OH161S01
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - VW-s01
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72023
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 40.7784996
  • Std. Longitude: -84.5829163
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 13
  • Location Description: NE corner of field west of lot and building at junction R. 127 and 709. 20 ft S of gate. NE4 SW4. Lat & Long approx.
  • Map Unit: Blg1A1—Blount silt loam, ground moraine, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH161—Van Wert

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: baker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2013
  • Classifier - Neil Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Imperfectly drained brunizem-gray brown podzolic transition
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan outwash; Wisconsinan till
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/1956 (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
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004350. high organic content.
    A1—18 to 20 centimeters (7.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004351. High organic content.
    A1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) silt loam; weak thick platy structure; 33 percent fine and coarse reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004351. contains many worm holes which are filled with material from A12, also material is visicular. The lower horizon boundary is irregular to broken and gradual with nodules of B21 being mixed with A2 over about a 3 inch zone at 10 to 13 inches. The A2 horizon
    B1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; fine and medium angular blocky structure; 33 percent medium and coarse reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004352
    B1—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate angular blocky structure; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004353. Coatings are distinctly mottled with brown 7.5YR5/4 medium size and they occur commmonly. slightly plastic when wet; an occasional rock, 2-4? in diameter, is present;
    B1—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate structure; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004354. Many worm holes present;
    1—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; single grain; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004355
    1—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay; massive; medium grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004356. Also many white, 10YR 8/1, CaCO3 streaks occur at random. Glacial till which contains small black shale fragments and other coarse or fine gravels. Calcareous sample.