IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1955OH013S03
  • User Pedon ID: 1955-OH013-S03
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-s03
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70117
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4NW 1/4NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Richland Twp., Belmont Co. Exp. farm; 100 yds. W of east border of farm and N of Rt.40. , , of Sec.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH013—Belmont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: holowaychuk, jones
  • 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: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/3/1955 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003249
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003250
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0003251
    2BC31—56 to 61 centimeters (22.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003252. very common black coatings also on ped faces. Numerous olive brown and light olive brown sandstone fragments present—appears to be a stone line.
    2BC32—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; weak medium prismatic, and moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of reduced iron and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent manganese coatings; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003253. Skeletal material of olive brown sandstone fragments with black coatings.
    2BC33—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; weak medium prismatic, and weak subangular blocky structure; friable; gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0003254. Some black coatings; some sandstone fragments present.
    2C1—127 to 157 centimeters (50.0 to 61.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0003255. Numerous olive brown weathered sandstone fragments.
    2C2—157 to 188 centimeters (61.8 to 74.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0003256. Faint yellowish brown mottling; numerous olive brown weathered sandstone fragments.
    2C3—188 to 208 centimeters (74.0 to 81.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; 75 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments. Lab sample # OSU0003257. Soft, weathered olive brown platy sandstone fragments; bedrock at 82?.