IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keene
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970OH075003
  • User Pedon ID: 1970OH075003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HL-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69600
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.5013667
  • Std. Longitude: -81.9039028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 10
  • Location Description: Mechanic Twp. Sec. 10, , , ; 100 ft. S of Twp Rd. 388, center of ridge, Paul Hartman farm.
  • Map Unit: KeB—Keene silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH075—Holmes
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH075—Holmes County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40081-E8—Millersburg, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn Kelley; Marvin Bureau
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/27/2013
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keene
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/1970
  • Classifier - Glenn Kelley
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from shale over residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 112cm
  • Geology: Allegheny/pottsville group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    112 - 137

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithic contact

    0—25

    25—91

    38—91

    112—137

    —25—

    —66—

    —53—

    —25—
    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

    5

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    353.6

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many (6.9) fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020498
    BE—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.4) fine roots; distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020499
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (2.7) roots; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020500
    2Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (2.3) roots; faint brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 15 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 20 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020501. Moderate medium prismatic structure parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure.; -thin continuous clay films
    2Bt3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; few (0.7) roots; faint brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 16 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 19 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020502. -thin continuous clay films
    2Bt4—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) channery silt loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; few (0.5) roots; prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 12 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses and 20 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent fine faint light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020503. Coarse skeleton is shale fragments.; -thin patchy clay films
    2C—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) channery silt loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; 30 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # OSU0020504. Coarse skeleton is shale fragments.; -weak medium platy structure possibly geologic since horizon designation is C
    3R—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Sandstone bedrock.