IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westmoreland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961OH115007
  • User Pedon ID: 1961-OH115-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MO-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71206
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: UNION
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 2400 east and 200 south of junction of SR 555 and Union Twp. Rd. 102 in of Sec. 35, Union Twp. on Ohio Division of Wildlife land. Abandoned pasture
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH115—Morgan
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Dunlavy
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone + limestone
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/1961 (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

    11

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak very fine granular structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013442. Brown silt loam. sample # 13442
    A—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013443. Dark yellowish brown heavy silt loam. sample # 13443
    A—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013444. Dark brown heavy silt loam. sample # 13444
    B—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013445. Dark brown silty clay. sample # 13445
    B—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 11 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013446. Dark brown clay with dark red common, prominent, medium mottles; occasional grey mottles and a few black coatings on ped faces. sample # 13446
    C—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 33 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent medium prominent pale olive (5Y 6/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0013447. Dark brown clay with many dark red and pale olive prominent, medium mottles; appears to be highly weathered clay shale. sample # 13447
    R—122 to 127 centimeters (48.0 to 50.0 inches); Error; fragments. Fractured, porous rock; appears to be limestone residue; does not effervesce with hydrochloric acid; black coating in seams. Not sampled.