IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1954OH023S03
  • User Pedon ID: 1954-OH023-S03
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CK-s03
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69195
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4NE 1/4
  • Location Description: , of Sec. 21, German Twp. Drake farm, 200 yds. E of county road.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH023—Clark

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: dotson, morse, holowaychuk
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brookston
  • 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: very poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) Error; moderate medium granular structure; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001462
    A12—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; coarse angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001463
    Bg1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001464. Moderatley sticky and moderately plastic when wet.
    Bg2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) Error; weak fine prismatic, and moderate angular blocky structure; very firm; faint 10YR 6 (10YR6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001465. Plastic and moderately sticky when wet.
    Bg3—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 10YR 8 (10YR/8) Error; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001466
    C1—91 to 140 centimeters (35.8 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 2.5Y 4 (2.5Y/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak subangular blocky structure; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001467. Clay film color extrapolated from ?very dark gray?; coarse fragments are limestone fragments and cobbles and range from 25 to 40%.
    C2—140 to 150 centimeters (55.1 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001468. Calcareous till; coarse fragments are ?mixed grit and limestone fragments and cobbles?.