IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairpoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981OH013026
  • User Pedon ID: 1981OH013026
  • User Site Association ID: OH013HistoricSpoil
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71060
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.0901056
  • Std. Longitude: -80.8691972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 35
  • Location Description: 1700 feet north and 400 feet west of southeast corner of section 35, T6N, R3W
  • Map Unit: Fpr1B1—Fairpoint silt loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, reclaimed
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH013—Belmont
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH013—Belmont County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-A7—Lansing, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Neil Rubel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairpoint
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2016
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1981
  • Classifier - T. Neil Rubel
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: nonacid coal extraction mine spoil derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Anthropogenic Feature: reclaimed land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Dunkard group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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-transported material

    0—41

    0—117

    —41—

    —117—
    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

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    359.7

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); variegated 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; massive parts to weak subangular blocky; very firm; common (3.3) roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024717
    B/A—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); variegated 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) channery silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.7) roots; 3 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024718
    B/C—41 to 91 centimeters (16.1 to 35.8 inches); variegated 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) channery silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) roots; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0024719
    C—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); variegated 50 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) and 15 percent dark gray (5YR 4/1) and 20 percent very dark gray (N 3/), and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silty clay loam; massive; very firm; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # OSU0024720