IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2000WV035301
  • User Pedon ID: 2000WV035301
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 6-23-00-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47572
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 39.0558333
  • Std. Longitude: -81.8029167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Everett Randolph Farm in Murraysville, 2nd bottom of Ohio River floodplain, Jackson County
  • Map Unit: AsA—Ashton silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • 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: 39081-A7—Portland, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashton
  • PSC - 28 to 100 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 - Ashton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tim Dilliplane
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—142

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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

    2.5

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00334. some weak medium granular in top 3 inches (8cm).
    BA—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains; 11 percent worm casts; 3 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00335
    Bt1—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) organic stains and 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00336. continuous - phpvsfiid 722311; continuous - phpvsfiid 722311
    Bt2—89 to 142 centimeters (35.0 to 55.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00337. continuous - phpvsfiid 722313; continuous - phpvsfiid 722313
    BC—142 to 163 centimeters (55.9 to 64.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 11 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00338
    C—163 centimeters (64.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; massive; friable; 11 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 5/8) iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine faint brown (10YR 4/3); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # WVU00339