IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woolper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2000WV053302
  • User Pedon ID: 2000WV053302
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47568
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 38.6246222
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1676861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near Ashton along SR 2. J. Nibert Farm, Mason County.
  • Map Unit: AsA—Ashton silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, rarely 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-E2—Glenwood, West Virginia
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • 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 - Woolper
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2016
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey 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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/2000 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—137

    —33—

    —104—

    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

    168

    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00322
    Ap2—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00323
    Bt1—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2) clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00324
    Bt2—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00325. (7.5YR 5/3) and (7.5YR 6/8) concentrations at the base of the horizon
    Bt3—97 to 137 centimeters (38.2 to 53.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; ; 1 percent by volume charcoal fragments and 1 percent by volume rounded sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00326
    BC—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3); weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00327