IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rarden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956OH141017
  • User Pedon ID: 1956-OH141-017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - RO-017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71172
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Huntington Twp. 200 yds. S of North Branch Indian Creek on Sullivan Rd.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH141—Ross
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: petro, finney, reeder
  • 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: Shale + siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    16

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004395. Fine silt loam to coarse silty clay loam.
    BA—15 to 22 centimeters (5.9 to 8.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004396. Occasional small channery pieces of sandstone.
    B1—22 to 38 centimeters (8.7 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) Error; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004397. Plastic when wet, non-sticky.
    B2—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) Error; firm; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004398. The grayish mottles become more numerous at increasing depths. Occasional small channery pieces of sandstone.
    C1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004399. Occasional weathered dark gray (10YR 4/1) shale fragments.
    C2—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; firm; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0004400. Weathered clay shale. Becomes less weathered at increasing depth toward bedrock of clay shale.