IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1951OH045S05
  • User Pedon ID: 1951-OH045-S05
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - FA-s05
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70856
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: , Sec. 26, T13N R19W, Madison Twp.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH045—Fairfield

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: petro, bernath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess; Sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/19/1951 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001351. Overlain with a thin mat of leaf litter and twigs. Smooth.
    E—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001352. Plastic but only slightly sticky when wet.
    BE—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001353. Plastic but only slightly sticky when wet.
    Bt—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001354. Smooth. Plastic and slightly sticky when wet.
    BCt—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001355. Description not available.
    C1—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001356. Contains numerous rounded weathered sandstone fragments that are moderately soft (Byer sandstone). This horizon is distinctly compact when compared with the horizon above.
    C2—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001357. Highly weathered fine-grained (Byer) sandstone containing sandy clay loam between cleavage planes. Matrix colors are for sandy clay loam.