IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rarden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956OH073003
  • User Pedon ID: 1956-OH073-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HO-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69263
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Starr Twp. south part of Sec. 35. Harry Armstrong Farm, 100 ft. N of pond, adjacet to gully. 4 miles SW of Haydenville.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH073—Hocking

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: r. l. shields
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Aquultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rarden
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone + shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1956 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; moderate granular structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # OSU0005265
    BA—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; strong medium and coarse granular structure; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # OSU0005266
    B—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) Error; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # OSU0005267. Slightly sticky when wet. Hard when dry.
    BC—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) and red (10R 4/6) Error; strong medium prismatic structure; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0005268. Very sticky when wet. Hard when dry.
    C1—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); red (10R 4/6) and white (10YR 8/1) Error; strong medium and coarse prismatic structure; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0005269. Very sticky when wet. Hard when dry. Partially weathered red and gray shale.
    C2—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); red (10R 4/6) and white (10YR 8/1); fragments. Lab sample # OSU0005270. Shale. Very hard and massive when dry. Slightly weathered red and gray shale.