IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S01WV081002 Dekalb
  • User Pedon ID: 01WV081002 Dekalb
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1138
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15521
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 37.7283333
  • Std. Longitude: -81.0118667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on a very steep mountain slope about 1.7 miles northwest of Pluto
  • Map Unit: LDF—Layland-Dekalb-Guyandotte association, very steep, extremely stony
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV081—Raleigh
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MOR—Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV705—Fayette and Raleigh Counties Area, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37081-F1—Shady Spring, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jenkins, Tony
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Matewan
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 80cm
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent flat subrounded indurated 150- to 914-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2001 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    80 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    8—80

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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

    46

    —

    —

    771

    —

    326

    1002

    —

    141

    10.2

    19.6

    0.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Beckley VA Hospital

    WETS
    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); stony slightly decomposed plant material; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 380-?-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05767
    Oe—1 to 3 centimeters (0.4 to 1.2 inches); stony moderately decomposed plant material; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 380-?-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05768
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery highly organic loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05769
    BA—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05770
    Bw1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05771
    Bw2—30 to 54 centimeters (11.8 to 21.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 25 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05772
    Bw3—54 to 65 centimeters (21.3 to 25.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 50 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05773
    BC—65 to 80 centimeters (25.6 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N05774
    R—80 centimeters (31.5 inches); fragments. indurated sandstone bedrock