IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guernsey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986OH121001
  • User Pedon ID: S1986OH121001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Ohio St
  • Lab Pedon # - NB-S13
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71266
  • 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: 39.7903028
  • Std. Longitude: -81.5060167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: Center Township
  • Location Description: This site is located about 2.75 miles east of Belle Valley, in Center Township; 1090 feet south and 50 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 23, T. 7N., R. 9W.
  • Map Unit: GuD—Guernsey silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH121—Noble
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH121—Noble County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39081-G5—Caldwell North, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dwain Waters
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guernsey (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/2014
  • Classifier - Richard Jones
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, unspecified at 152cm
  • Geology: Conemaugh group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    152 - 177

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

    paralithic contact

    0—38

    38—137

    56—152

    94—137

    152—177

    —38—

    —99—

    —96—

    —43—

    —25—
    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

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    298.2

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; many (6.0) fine roots; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.
    BE—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (4.0) fine roots; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) fine roots; 25 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; common (2.0) fine roots; 30 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btg—94 to 137 centimeters (37.0 to 53.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.8) fine roots; 35 percent faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); variegated 50 percent gray (N 5/), and 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery silt loam; structureless massive; firm; 25 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2Cr—152 to 177 centimeters (59.8 to 69.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.