IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970OH057022
  • User Pedon ID: 1970-OH057-022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - GN-022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71415
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Glen Helen, 1/2 mi. E of village of Yellow Springs. 100 yds. Nw of Outdoor Education Center Office and 75 yds. NE of Staff Quarters.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH057—Greene

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: garner
  • 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: 10/14/1970 (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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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) Error; strong fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020302. The upper 6 inches appears to have been cultivated at one time, but it has been retired to woodland for a long enough period that an A1 horizon has reformed.
    E—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020303. Pendants of the E horizon extend to 12 inches or deeper in what appear to be root channels.
    BEt—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020304. patchy - phpvsfiid 979906; patchy - phpvsfiid 979906
    2Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate structure; firm; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020305. Coarse fragments are glacial erratics.; continuous - phpvsfiid 979907; continuous - phpvsfiid 979907
    2Bt2—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate structure; very firm; distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 8 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020306. Coarse fragments are igneous glacial erratics. Abrupt, wavy boundary follows the contour of the underlying bedrock. Thin pendants of the 2Bt2 horizon extend for 2 to 3 inches into the larger joints in the underlying limestone. The vertical faces of these; continuous - phpvsfiid 979908; continuous - phpvsfiid 979908
    3C—76 to 77 centimeters (29.9 to 30.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt wavy boundary. This is a thin zone of weathered bedrock that ranges from 0.25 to 1 inch over the horizontal surface of the bedrock and it is slightly thicker where it extends into the joints of the bedrock. It is dominantly 10YR 6/3 but is stained with 10YR 5/4 or 10YR
    3R—77 to 84 centimeters (30.3 to 33.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1); fragments; slight effervescence. Cedarville dolomite bedrock. Hard. The uppper 2 to 3 inches of the bedrock could be chipped out with a spade, but below this it was very hard. Not sampled.