IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huntington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2000WV053300
  • User Pedon ID: 2000WV053300
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47564
  • Print Date: 4/2/2025

    • 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: 38.7875870
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2141860
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 0.5 miles N of the intersection of SR 2 and SR 2/9, approximately 0.5 miles W of SR 2, 75 ft. SW of farm road in field. Gallipolis Ferry, West of the sand and gravel plant. Mason County
  • Map Unit: HoA—Huntington silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • 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-G2—Gallipolis, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Huntington
  • PSC - 30 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 - Huntington
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/2000
  • 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: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/8/2000 (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

    mollic epipedon

    0—30

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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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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 30 percent organic stains on faces of peds; quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00292
    Bw1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent organic stains on faces of peds; quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00293
    Bw2—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent organic stains on faces of peds; quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00294. common thin clay or silt flows on ped faces.
    Bw3—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent organic stains on faces of peds; charcoal fragments and quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00295. common thin clay and/or silt flows on ped faces and in root channels
    Bw4—122 to 173 centimeters (48.0 to 68.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; ; quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00296. few thin clay and silt flows on ped faces and in root channels.
    C—173 to 183 centimeters (68.1 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; massive; friable; 0.5 roots; quartzite fragments and 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # WVU00297