IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rarden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH131W01
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH131-W01
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - PK-w01
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71938
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Benton Twp. 1.6 mi. NNE of Latham on Latham Hill road to Green Ridge fire tower then .65 mi. NW of fire tower on left fork of gravel road to a Pike State Forest fire trail then 0.4 mi. E on fire trail to a pond. Sample site is 50 ft. N of trail and 100 f
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH131—Pike

    • PEDON

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


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess; Shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1962 (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
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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments. Pine needles - freshly fallen over older weathered needles.
    Oa—1 to 3 centimeters (0.4 to 1.2 inches); fragments. A trace of mor type humus at surface of mineral soil.
    Ap1—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak platy, and weak granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine pores; 1 percent fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015164. Non-sticky and non-plastic when wet. Estimated permeability - moderately rapid.
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak very thick platy, and weak granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine pores; 1 percent fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015165. Non-sticky and non-plastic when wet. Estimated permeability - moderate.
    B1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine pores; yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015166. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet. Estimated permeability - moderate.; patchy - phpvsfiid 978243; patchy - phpvsfiid 978243
    B2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine pores; faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films and 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015167. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet. Estimated permeability - moderate.; patchy - phpvsfiid 978244; patchy - phpvsfiid 978245; patchy - phpvsfiid 978244; patchy - phpvsfiid 978245
    2B3—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) Error; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate angular blocky structure; very firm; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0015168. The gray (10YR 6/1) surface color penetrates along cracks, pores, worm and root channels giving a variegated effect. Silt coating decreases in continuity along the vertical faces of the prisms with depth in the horizon. Slightly sticky and plastic when we
    3R—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films; fragments. Thin stratum of relatively unweathered, hard, fine grained sandstone, broken by occasional, very thin, vertical cracks. No sample.
    4C—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak, and massive; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # OSU0015169. Mixed matrix colors. Crushed color is 2.5 Y 5/4. Slightly sticky and slightly plastic when wet. Estimated permeability - slow. Relatively unweathered shale at 37 inches. (Note: This material is of a different stratum, but presumed to be similar in nature