IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1960OH165039
  • User Pedon ID: 1960-OH165-039
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - WA-039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69928
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 50 ft. E of Robinson-Vail Rd., 75 to 100 yds. S of intersection of St.Rt. 23 in Franklin Twp.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH165—Warren

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: garner, ernst
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Milton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan till; Limestone
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1960 (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
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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010744
    B21—17 to 30 centimeters (6.7 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010745. Dark yellowish brown ped interiors, 10YR 4/4; continuous - phpvsfiid 976189; continuous - phpvsfiid 976189
    B22—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010746. bottom of this horizon is the end of silt cap.; continuous - phpvsfiid 976190; continuous - phpvsfiid 976190
    2B2—46 to 65 centimeters (18.1 to 25.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 33 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0010747. structure also described as weak medium prismatic; numerous glacial pebbles and sands which appear to be weathered from till.
    C1—65 to 97 centimeters (25.6 to 38.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) Error; massive; firm; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0010748. apparently glacial till; calcareous. The limestone fragments horizons C1 and C2 are oriented with their long axis in a horizontal direction in much the same position as the limestone layers occur in the undisturbed bedrock.
    C2—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) Error; massive; firm; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent fine distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0010749. Contains many flat Ordovician flags ranging in size from 2-12? across horizontally; bedrock solid from 1-2 feet below sample depth; calcareous.