IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canadice
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016OH067001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016OH067001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N2044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87695
  • Print Date: 2/5/2025

    • 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: 40.3386822
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1041787
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: Me—Melvin silt loam, frequently ponded, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH067—Harrison
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH067—Harrison County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40081-C1—Jewett, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Hoover; Dan Benyei
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Typic Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canadice
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, illitic, mesic Typic Endoaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2016
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or lacustrine deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Microfeature: closed depression
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for long periods begining in dec
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Scoot Hoover; Dan Benyei
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    reduced matrix

    0—10

    10—70

    10—123

    —10—

    —60—

    —113—
    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0

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    —

    275

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 10 percent sand; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; many (8.0) very fine roots throughout; 7 percent fine prominent spherical yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N09314; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—10 to 32 centimeters (3.9 to 12.6 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silt loam; 10 percent sand; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N09315; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—32 to 49 centimeters (12.6 to 19.3 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 35 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 35 percent faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N09316; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg3—49 to 70 centimeters (19.3 to 27.6 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 36 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 7 percent fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N09317; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg—70 to 123 centimeters (27.6 to 48.4 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 39 percent clay; massive; firm; 10 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses and 25 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 16N09318; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—123 to 200 centimeters (48.4 to 78.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 30 percent clay; massive; firm; 3 percent prominent manganese masses and 30 percent medium prominent 5PB 7/ (5PB 7/), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 16N09319; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket