IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossmoyne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012OH071001
  • User Pedon ID: 2012OH071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0555
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72947
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.2158056
  • Std. Longitude: -83.7321111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 6 1/2 miles northwest of Hillsboro, in Union Township; 895 feet west and 200 feet north of the junction of Russell and Oldaker Roads; USGS New Market, Ohio topographic quadrangle
  • Map Unit: RpB—Rossmoyne silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH071—Highland
  • MLRA: 114A—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain, Eastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH071—Highland County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39083-B6—New Market, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K.Norwood,J.Allen,N.Stephens,M.Lane,T.Staggs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossmoyne
  • PSC - 24 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossmoyne
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over till
  • Landform: till plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: K.Norwood, J.Allen, N.Stephens, M.Lane, T. Staggs
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    56 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—24

    24—203

    56—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

    3

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    320

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    Ap—0 to 24 centimeters (0.0 to 9.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; many (8.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded ? to 4-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02607; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—24 to 56 centimeters (9.4 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; many (7.0) fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix and 3 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent fine faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded ? to 4-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02608; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx1—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; many (8.0) very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 15 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent fine faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded ? to 4-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02609; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx2—94 to 126 centimeters (37.0 to 49.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 25 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 15 percent fine faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay depletions in matrix; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded ? to 4-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02610; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btx3—126 to 152 centimeters (49.6 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded ? to 4-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02611; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 20 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume , 4 percent by weight nonflat subrounded ? to 4-? millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N02612; moist when described; observed in pit, small