IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clermont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1953OH025S05
  • User Pedon ID: 1953-OH025-S05
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CL-s05
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69417
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 100 yds. SSW of SE corner of Clermont co. Exp. Sta. Farm.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH025—Clermont
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: holowaychuk, struthers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Glossaqualfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clermont
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Illinoian till
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Geology: Illinoian formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/7/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    1

    0

    A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) Error; moderate coarse granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0000148. Roots have horizontal orientation.
    A2—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) Error; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0000149. Tree roots have horizontal orientation.
    E—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) Error; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0000152
    EB—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0000144
    Btg1—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # OSU0000153
    Btg2—79 to 127 centimeters (31.1 to 50.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) and gray (5Y 6/1) Error; weak medium prismatic, and angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0000145. Sticky and plastic; roots have vertical orientation.
    Btg3—127 to 163 centimeters (50.0 to 64.2 inches); 2.5Y 4/0 (2.5Y 4/0) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) Error; weak coarse prismatic, and angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0000146. 2.5Y 4/ tongues of this horizon penetrate into the horizon above; sticky and plastic; considerable grit and gravel; roots have vertical orientation.
    BCg—163 to 188 centimeters (64.2 to 74.0 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) and gray (N 6/), and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) Error; fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0000147. Colors given as ?yellow, brownish yellow, and gray?; considerable angular gravel and some limestone cobbles. Lateral seepage noted.
    C—188 to 198 centimeters (74.0 to 78.0 inches); gray (N 5/),; coarse platy structure; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSUA000153. Colors given as gray, with yellowish brown coatings. Calcareous till; dry.