OF THE UNGLACIATED ALLEGHENY PLATEAU, UPPER OHIO VALLEY, AS INTERPRETED FROM A PIPELINE EXCAVATION1

• Main Authors: Lessig Heber D, Heber D. Lessig, U. S. Soil, Conservation Service
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: Beaver Creek
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.546.761

This paper reports the results of study of the soils, soil parent material, and relevant bedrock along the excavation for a pipeline, which extended for five miles from the northeast corner of section 12, St. Clair Township, to the center of sec-tion 27, Middleton Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. These results are correlated with some pedologic and geologic generalizations gathered during the soil survey of Columbiana County. The study area is in the upper Ohio Basin and is drained by Little Beaver Creek, which flows into the Ohio River at Smiths Ferry, Pennsylvania. Little Beaver Creek has a composite drainage basin. A northern basin, formerly draining to the northeast, was ponded by a very early Pleistocene glacier (Lessig, 1963) andjoined with a southern basin to form the present basin of Little Beaver Creek (Stout and Lamborn, 1924: 23-33). Detailed descriptions of 6 soil profiles, representing soils developed from materials on several subdivisions of the Allegheny Plateau in Ohio, are given. Local subdivisions are the ridgetops, benches, steep slopes, high glacial out wash terraces, and drainage ways. The soils and materials were studied as a continuum