IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988OH067004
  • User Pedon ID: 1988OH067004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - HR-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71397
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 40.2627750
  • Std. Longitude: -81.0157750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: Cody Twp
  • Location Description: Cadiz Twp., 1320 ft. W and 261 ft. S of the NE corner of Sec. 10. T10N R 5W.
  • Map Unit: MrF—Morristown channery silt loam, 25 to 70 percent slopes, bouldery
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH067—Harrison
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH067—Harrison County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40081-C1—Jewett, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Linn Roth; Richard Buzard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2015
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/1987
  • Classifier - Linn Roth
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coal extraction mine spoil derived from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: spoil bank
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Monongahela group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1988 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    human-transported material

    0—13

    0—203

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    —203—
    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

    70

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    359.7

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    180

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; channery silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; many (6.9) very fine roots; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0026007
    C1—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); variegated 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; massive; firm; common (3.1) fine roots; 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0026008
    C2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); variegated 90 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 10 percent 10YR 6 (10YR/6) very channery silt loam; massive; firm; few (0.8) fine roots; 25 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0026009
    C3—61 to 203 centimeters (24.0 to 79.9 inches); variegated 80 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 10 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery silt loam; massive; firm; few (0.6) fine roots; 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # OSU0026010, OSU0026011, OSU0026012, OSU0026013, OSU0026014, OSU0026015, OSU0026016, OSU0026017, OSU0026018