IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2000WV035300
  • User Pedon ID: 2000WV035300
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47569
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.9171500
  • Std. Longitude: -81.8318250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: South of Ravenswood, Century Aluminum property, Jackson County
  • Map Unit: ChA—Chavies fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV035—Jackson
  • 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: 38081-H7—Ravenswood, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, subactive, 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 - Elk
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2016
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Applegrove/Chavies
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2000
  • 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: 5/18/2000 (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—25

    25—94

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    —69—
    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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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00328
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3) on faces of peds and 10 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00329. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722321; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722321
    Bt2—48 to 94 centimeters (18.9 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; brown (7.5YR 4/3) on faces of peds and 10 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00330. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722323; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722323
    BC—94 to 107 centimeters (37.0 to 42.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) iron depletions; 1 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and medium light brown (7.5YR 6/3); 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00331
    2BC—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 11 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 11 percent coarse distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00332
    2C—142 to 165 centimeters (55.9 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) stratified stratified silt loam to fine sandy loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00333