IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ramsey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1971OH085029
  • User Pedon ID: 1971-OH085-029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - LK-029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69401
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Concord Twp. T10N, R8W; 3 1/2 miles southeast of Mentor adjacent to Lake-Geauga Co. line. 1.1 mile east of King Memorial Rd. off of Little Mtn. Rd; top of Little Mtn., access by private road.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH085—Lake

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: reeder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, mesic Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ramsey
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone
  • Landform: moraine
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/1971 (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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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) Error; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020927
    A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; Error; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; abrupt boundary. Horizon ranges from 0 to 6 inches thick. Not sampled.
    B—10 to 48 centimeters (3.9 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0020928. Horizon is 25 to 30 percent fractured sandstone (4 to 6 inches in size).
    R—48 to 53 centimeters (18.9 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; 80 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments. Horizon is 80 percent fractured sandstone with sandy loam in the cracks. Cracks up to 1 inch wide. Not sampled.