IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956OH161S03
  • User Pedon ID: S1956OH161S03
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - VW-s03
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70929
  • 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: 40.7719154
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7251663
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1E
  • Range: 3S
  • Section: 14
  • Location Description: taken along ditch cut on N side of rd, across from 2nd light pole E of corner pole SW160SW40 . Lat. & Long. approx.
  • Map Unit: Blg1B1—Blount silt loam, ground moraine, 2 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH161—Van Wert
  • MLRA: 99—Erie-Huron Lake Plain
  • 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 - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 29 cm of Depth to carbonates


    • 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: 7/26/1956 (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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004363. mildly alkaline.
    E—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light gray (10YR 7/2) loam; weak thin platy structure; very friable; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004364. lower boundary clear, smooth with occasional nodule of B21 in the lower 2 inches. Mildly alkaline. Sampled at 6-9? 9-12?
    E—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light gray (10YR 7/2) loam; weak thin platy structure; very friable; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004365. lower boundary clear, smooth with occasional nodule of B21 in the lower 2 inches. Mildly alkaline. Sampled at 6-9? 9-12?
    B1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004366. Medium acid.
    B1—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0004367. Neutral.
    C1—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004368. calcareous till.
    C1—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), clay loam; massive; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004369. Calcareous, clay loam till with white streaks of calcareous material. Sampled at 45-48?