IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972OH013014
  • User Pedon ID: 1972OH013014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71592
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 40.0826000
  • Std. Longitude: -81.2018300
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 27
  • Location Description: Belmont County, OH, Kirkwood Township about 2,250 feet west and 100 feet south of the northeast corner sec. 27, T9N, R6W
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH013—Belmont
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Neil Rubel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, spolic, mixed, active, acid, mesic Anthroportic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Classifier - Debby Cunningham
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone + siltstone + shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    human-altered material

    0—13

    0—152

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    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

    4

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    384

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; channery silty clay loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-125-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022988. In the manuscript, this horizon was described as having "15 percent shale fragments and 10 percent sandstone fragments", which were interpreted as 15 percent flat, subangular, very strongly cemented shale fragments of channer size, and 10 percent nonflat, subangular, indurated sandstone fragments of cobble size. Also described was a texture modifier of "shaly", which was interpreted as channery. Also described were "few roots", which were interpreted as few (0.5) fine roots.
    C1—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); variegated 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) very channery clay loam; structureless massive; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150-225-380 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022989. In the manuscript, this horizon was described as having "25 percent shale fragments and 15 percent sandstone fragments", which were interpreted as 25 percent flat, subangular, very strongly cemented shale fragments of flagstone size, and 15 percent nonflat, subangular, indurated sandstone fragments of stone size. Also described was a texture modifier of "shaly", which was interpreted as very channery. Also described were "few roots", which were interpreted as few (0.5) fine roots.
    C2—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); variegated 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery clay loam; structureless massive; very firm; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 600-800-1000 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 380-450-600 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified. In the manuscript, this horizon was described as having "30 percent shale fragments and 15 percent sandstone fragments", which were interpreted as 30 percent flat, subangular, very strongly cemented shale fragments of stone size, and 15 percent nonflat, subangular, indurated sandstone fragments of boulder size. Also described was a texture modifier of "shaly", which was interpreted as very channery.