IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976OH013015
  • User Pedon ID: 1976-OH013-015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72055
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 16
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH013—Belmont
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RUBEL/PLUNKETT/JENNY
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1976 (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
  • 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

    2

    365.8

    225

    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) Error; moderate fine granular structure; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022990
    A12—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) Error; weak medium granular structure; 11 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent coarse distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022990
    C1—8 to 41 centimeters (3.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; massive; 33 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 33 percent coarse distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0022991
    C2—41 to 102 centimeters (16.1 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) Error; massive; 1 percent fine faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 33 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0.