IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1960OH111007
  • User Pedon ID: 1960-OH111-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MN-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72260
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4SE 1/4 NE 1/4
  • Location Description: 6.12 mi. W and 1.3 mi. S of Woodsfield, , of of of Sec. 34, Wayne Twp. 1.05 mi. S of SR 145 on Co.Rd. 17. 500 ft. W of road.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH111—Monroe

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: kelley, rubel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/1960 (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

    23

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    350.5

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011647
    BA—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011648
    B1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011649. Chert fragments between 1 and 2 inches in diameter were common.
    B2—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011650. Several chert fragments were common.
    B3—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011651. Coarse skeleton of sandstone fragments less than 6 inches in diameter.
    B4—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011652. Coarse skeleton of sandstone fragments less than 6 inches in diameter.
    BC—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) Error; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0011653
    C—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) Error; massive; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # OSU0011654. Light gray (10YR 7/1) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) colors cover shale fragment surfaces.
    R—76 to 81 centimeters (29.9 to 31.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4); fragments. Unweathered shale. Not sampled.