IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cardington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1949OH045S06
  • User Pedon ID: 1949-OH045-S06
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - FA-s06
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72648
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • Location Description: , Sec. 21, T17n R19W, Liberty Twp.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH045—Fairfield

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: petro, young
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cardington
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/15/1949 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001365. Smooth.
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak medium platy, and granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001366. Smooth.
    BEt—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; friable; faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001367. Heavy in texture in lower 2 to 3 inches.
    Bt—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; friable; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001368. Slightly hard when dry. Contains a few small igneous pebbles.
    BCt—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; very firm; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001369. Hard when dry. Plastic when wet. Occasional small pebbles and shale fragments.
    C—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; very firm; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0001370. Weathered glacial till.