IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Schaffer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012OH165003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012OH165003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0558
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72958
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 39.2718139
  • Std. Longitude: -84.0725750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: AvB2—Avonburg silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, moderately eroded
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH165—Warren
  • MLRA: 114A—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain, Eastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH165—Warren County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39084-C1—Pleasant Plain, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.Allen,N.Stephens, M.Lane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, active, mesic Aquic Fraglossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Schaffer
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, active, mesic Aquic Fraglossudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 70 to 121 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: J.Allen, N.Stephens, M.Lane
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (4.0) medium roots throughout and many (10.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02625; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—30 to 70 centimeters (11.8 to 27.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and many (5.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay depletions on faces of peds and 15 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02626; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/Btx—70 to 108 centimeters (27.6 to 42.5 inches); 60 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silt loam, silty clay loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (1.0) medium roots between peds and common (3.0) fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 5 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 20 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02627; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx—108 to 135 centimeters (42.5 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; common (1.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02628; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—135 to 172 centimeters (53.1 to 67.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.0) fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 25 percent medium distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02629; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—172 to 203 centimeters (67.7 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded ? to 125-? millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 15-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N02630; moist when described; observed in pit, small