IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956OH073002
  • User Pedon ID: 1956-OH073-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HO-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71963
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Goodhope Twp., T13N-R18W Sec. 28, . 2 mi. W of Rockbridge on Henry Brown farm on Ridge Rd., NW corner of pasture behind homestead.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH073—Hocking

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: r. l. shields , c. h. innis
  • 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: Wisconsinan loess; Sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/1956 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) Error; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0005261. The upper part of the solum is siltier than typical Wellston.
    BA—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak medium and coarse granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0005262
    B1—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0005263
    B2—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 33 percent medium and coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0005264. Easily crushed.
    C—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); fragments. Slightly weathered sandstone (Blackhand). Not sampled.