IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Schaffer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012OH025001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012OH025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0553
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72772
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.1199778
  • Std. Longitude: -84.1191861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH025—Clermont
  • MLRA: 114A—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain, Eastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH025—Clermont County, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Norwood, N. Stephens, J. Allen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Fraglossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Schaffer
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Schaffer
  • Classificaton Date - 4/5/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/5/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many (5.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N02593; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt/E—20 to 39 centimeters (7.9 to 15.4 inches); 75 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout and common (2.0) coarse roots throughout; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, and and and masses of oxidized iron throughout and 20 percent fine distinct irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded ? to 35-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02594; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg—39 to 59 centimeters (15.4 to 23.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 25 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded ? to 35-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02595; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btgx1—59 to 82 centimeters (23.2 to 32.3 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 25 percent fine prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume subrounded ? to 35-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02596; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btgx2—82 to 102 centimeters (32.3 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, slightly sticky; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent coarse distinct irregular iron-manganese masses throughout and 35 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 4 percent by volume subrounded ? to 35-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02597; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btx1—102 to 140 centimeters (40.2 to 55.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, slightly sticky; few (1.0) fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses throughout and 30 percent medium distinct irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; 7 percent by volume subrounded ? to 35-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02598; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btx2—140 to 203 centimeters (55.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 10 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent irregular black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 20 percent fine prominent irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; 8 percent by volume subrounded ? to 35-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N02599; moist when described; observed in pit, small