IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moshannon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003WV105001
  • User Pedon ID: 03WV105001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0840
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15757
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 38.9613876
  • Std. Longitude: -81.3880539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a pasture near Two Run Church; approximately 0.3 mile south of intersection of SR 14 and SR 14/13, about 200 yards west of SR 14.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV105—Wirt
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38081-H4—Reedy, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moshannon
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mainly reddish material washed from dunkard geology uplands
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium and coarse granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04267
    Bw1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04268
    Bw2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04269
    Bw3—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04270
    BC—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04271
    C1—135 to 173 centimeters (53.1 to 68.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04272
    C2—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) stratified stratified fine sandy loam to loam; massive; friable; 3 percent fine brown (7.5YR 5/3) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # 03N04273