IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upshur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1960OH009001
  • User Pedon ID: 1960-OH009-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AT-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71913
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 14W
  • Location Description: Alexandria Twp., Ohio University Farm, approximately 7 miles south by southwest of Athens at Hebbardsville. Approximately 1/2 mile south and 1/2 mile east of Hebbardsville. 30 feet north and 50 feet west in from corner of forest.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH009—Athens
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Jones, R. Meeker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 36 cm of Depth to carbonates


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess; Shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/1960 (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
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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010310
    Oa—1 to 1 centimeters (0.4 to 0.4 inches); fragments. Mull layer.
    Oi—2 to 2 centimeters (0.8 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Oak leaf litter.
    E—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) Error; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010311
    BE—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010312
    Bt1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010313
    Bt2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) Error; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010314. Angular blocky structure in the upper portion of this horizon gradually grades to massive in the lower portion. Slickenside surfaces are approximately 1 to 2 inches in length with matching concave and convex surfaces with an overall horizontal orientation
    Bt3—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) Error; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010315. Angular blocky structure in the upper portion of this horizon gradually grades to massive in the lower portion. Slickenside surfaces are approximately 1 to 2 inches in length with matching concave and convex surfaces with an overall horizontal orientation
    Bt4—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) Error; massive; very firm; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010316. Slickenside surfaces are approximately 1 to 2 inches in length with matching concave and convex surfaces with an overall horizontal orientation.
    BC—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) Error; 11 percent dusky red (10R 3/4) coarse prominent mottles; massive; very firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010317
    BC—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) Error; massive; very firm; 11 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010318
    Cr1—117 to 140 centimeters (46.1 to 55.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) Error; 11 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0010319. Siltstone and relatively thin bedded shale. Matrix color is from crushed sample.
    Cr2—140 to 157 centimeters (55.1 to 61.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); fragments. Lab sample # OSU0010320. Matrix color is from crushed sample. Relatively thin bedded siltstone with minor colors of 5Y 5/3 and 10R 3/4. Calcareous.