IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957OH029030
  • User Pedon ID: 1957-OH029-030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CO-030
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72202
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Center of Sec. 31 East Liverpool Twp. about 1 1/2 mi. S of Glenmore, 25 ft. NE of diagonal road.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH029—Columbiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: h. d. lessig
  • 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: Sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/1957 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak very fine granular structure; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006386. Slightly hard when dry.
    A2—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak very fine granular structure; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006387. Slightly hard to hard when dry.
    B1—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006388. Slightly hard when dry.
    B21—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate angular blocky structure; 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006389. Slightly hard to hard when dry.
    B22—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) Error; moderate medium angular blocky structure; 33 percent fine manganese coatings; 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006390. Slightly hard to hard when dry.
    Bm31—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium angular blocky structure; coarse manganese coatings and 10 percent medium manganese coatings; 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006391. Horizontal axis of peds is longer than vertical; slightly hard to hard.
    Bm32—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate very coarse angular blocky structure; coarse manganese coatings and 11 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006392. Mottle color given as ?grayish?; weak fragipan; horizontal ped faces are longer than the vertical ones; slightly hard to hard.
    C11—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); 5/4 5/4) Error; massive; 1 percent coarse manganese coatings; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear boundary. Lab sample # OSU0006393. Thin layers of soil between sandstone fragments.
    C12—114 to 147 centimeters (44.9 to 57.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0006394. Filling between layers of rotted sandstone. Underlain by gray sandstone bedrock, beds about 3? think, which become hard within a depth of several inches.