IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH127W02
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH127-W02
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - PR-w02
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72268
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4NW 1/4
  • Location Description: , Sec. 33, Clayton Twp. 1 mile NE New Lexington to city water works, N on twp. rd to junction of Twp.Rd. 173; E 0.6 miles to areas used for trash dump and to bottom of hill. Follow small stream for approximately 400 ft. upstream and S to s
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH127—Perry

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: k wenner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/1962 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    15

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Oak leaf litter.
    Oa—5 to 5 centimeters (2.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Trace of mull layer.
    Ap—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014347. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    BE—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014348. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    B1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) Error; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014349. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    B2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014350. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    BC—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films; 33 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014351. Estimated permeability - moderately slow. Coarse skeleton of shale and sandstone fragments.
    R—89 to 94 centimeters (35.0 to 37.0 inches); fragments. Shale bedrock.