IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH127W05
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH127-W05
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - PR-w05
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69129
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4SE 1/4NW 1/4
  • Location Description: , , Sec. 18, Pike Twp. 0.9 miles S of Martinville on Co.Rd. 57, 500 ft. E of road. Clarence Kokensparger farm.
  • 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: Sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/20/1962 (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

    16

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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 a mull layer.
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; strong coarse granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014368. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    E—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak thin platy structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014369. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    BE—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014370. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    B1—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014371. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    B2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # OSU0014372. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    B3—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014373. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    BC—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent manganese coatings and 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014374. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    C—104 to 112 centimeters (40.9 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; friable; 11 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014375. Estimated permeability - moderately rapid.
    R—112 to 193 centimeters (44.1 to 76.0 inches); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # OSU0014376. Weakly bonded, medium grained sandstone that was easily penetrated with an auger.