IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chavies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998WV053300
  • User Pedon ID: 1998WV053300
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47563
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.6281820
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1626460
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 0.3 mi. NE of the intersection of SR 2 and SR 41 in a cultivated field. J. Nibert Farm- Ashton, Mason County
  • Map Unit: ChA—Chavies fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV053—Mason
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV600—Jackson and Mason Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38082-F2—Apple Grove, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chavies
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2016
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chavies
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tim Dilliplane
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    30—84

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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

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00346
    Ap2—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak coarse granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00346
    Bt1—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00347
    Bt2—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), dry; fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films; 1 percent manganese coatings; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00348
    BC—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00349. few (10YR 4/4) sand lenses; lenses and pockets of (7.5YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; few faint clay films in the fine sandy loam pockets
    C1—102 to 119 centimeters (40.2 to 46.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00350. few (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam pockets
    C2—119 to 163 centimeters (46.9 to 64.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments. Lab sample # WVU00351. pockets of (10YR 4/4) loamy fine sand
    C3—163 to 178 centimeters (64.2 to 70.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments.