IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highsplint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997WV093004
  • User Pedon ID: 1997WV093004
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Transect Interval - 656.2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - wv093004
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Slope above confluence of Hile Run and Horshoe Creek.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV093—Tucker
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV093—Tucker County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39079-B5—Lead Mine, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roy Pyle, Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Highsplint
  • PSC - 31 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Highsplint
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 14.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    55

    100

    100

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    128

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments.
    Oa—2 to 6 centimeters (0.8 to 2.4 inches); black (5YR 2/1) broken face; very friable; 8.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 30 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    A—6 to 15 centimeters (2.4 to 5.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1) broken face; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 8.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    BA—26 to 38 centimeters (10.2 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 40 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots between peds; 70 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    AB—45 to 26 centimeters (17.7 to 10.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 40 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw2—64 to 106 centimeters (25.2 to 41.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots between peds; 50 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw3—106 to 131 centimeters (41.7 to 51.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 1 percent fine and medium irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions around rock fragments and 1 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 60 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    BCx—131 to 167 centimeters (51.6 to 65.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.2 fine roots between peds; 5 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions between peds and 5 percent fine and medium irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3) iron depletions between peds and 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 60 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments. BCx horizon has fragic soil characteristics, but was not felt to have the clear prism faces, etc. to justify diagnostic pan. Also the depth is a factor.