IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959OH029088
  • User Pedon ID: 1959-OH029-088
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - CO-088
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70198
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: NE corner of Sec. 27, Middleton Twp. 300 ft. E of barn and 50 ft. S of lane.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH029—Columbiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: h. d. lessig
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/9/1959 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate granular structure; friable; 12 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008470
    B1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008471. Channers will crush to soil if rubbed.
    BC21—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008472. Horizon designated as B21C. Channers break easily.
    BC22—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; 80 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0008473. Horizon designated as B22C. Soil occurs as 2-5-mm-thick layers between layers of 2.5Y 4/4 siltstone about 1 cm thick; channers break easily.
    C—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0008474. Soil occurs as coatings on rocks in the horizontal cracks of 5Y 4/4 siltstone bedrock.