IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rittman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1955OH153S03
  • User Pedon ID: 1955-OH153-S03
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - ST-s03
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71604
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Bath Twp. 3/4 mile northeast of Ghent on Ghent Hills Dr., 20 ft. east of road cut.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH153—Summit

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Schafer, & holowaychuk
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rittman
  • 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: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/1955 (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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; moderate fine and medium granular structure; fragments. Considerable skeletal material in profile consisting of sandstone fragments banded with brown and dark reddish brown, few granitic cobbles and weathered pebbles of basic igneous rock up to 3 inches across, and some black shale fragments. Very little weath
    EB—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; friable; faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments.
    BE—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; fine distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0002900
    B—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; coarse distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0002901. This soil does not have the very firm lower B noted in other soils of this series.
    BC—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; weak subangular blocky structure; 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Road cut 20 feet west of pit is calcareous at 30 inches.
    C1—112 to 122 centimeters (44.1 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0002902