IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956OH161S02
  • User Pedon ID: S1956OH161S02
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - VW-s02
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71312
  • 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: 40.8147736
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7939987
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 6
  • Location Description: NW corner of field. 100 ft S of road center and 100 ft W of E field line. Lat & Long approx.
  • Map Unit: BoA—Blount silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH161—Van Wert
  • MLRA: 111B—Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Northeastern Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FIN—Findlay, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH161—Van Wert County, Ohio

    • 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 - Nappanee
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/1956 (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
    • 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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004357. non-plastic and non-sticky when wet, meduim acid.
    B1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate angular blocky structure; faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films; 33 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent fine distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004358. plastic when wet. Very strongly acid.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1140106; continuous - phpvsfiid 1140106
    B1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate angular blocky structure; 33 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004359. plastic when wet. Very strongly acid.
    B1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; medium and coarse angular blocky structure; 33 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004360. plastic when wet. Slightly acid.
    C1—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; weak angular blocky structure; 11 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004361. silty clay also contains common white 10YR 8/2 streaks of calcareous material.
    C1—81 to 132 centimeters (31.9 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; massive; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004362. calcareous till has many prominent fine and medium white 10YR 8/1 calcareous streaks.