IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chavies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2000WV107300
  • User Pedon ID: 2000WV107300
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47570
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 39.1746389
  • Std. Longitude: -81.7481389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: John Simms Farm, Belleville, Wood County
  • Map Unit: WhA—Wheeling silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV107—Wood
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV601—Wood and Wirt Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39081-B6—Lubeck, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Chavies
  • PSC - 28 to 78 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
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/2000
  • 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: 6/22/2000 (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—28

    28—81

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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 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume rounded ?-?-6 millimeter quartz fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00340
    Bt1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume rounded 6-?-? millimeter quartz fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00341. few pockets of A material
    Bt2—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent manganese coatings; charcoal fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00342. continuous - phpvsfiid 722319; continuous - phpvsfiid 722319
    E and Bt—81 to 124 centimeters (31.9 to 48.8 inches); weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 1 percent manganese coatings; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00343. loamy fine sand (E). Fine sandy loam (Bt); very friable in the loamy sand part, friable in the sandy loam part.; (10YR 5/3) sand stripings; evidence of bridging or weak clay films in Bt
    BC—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 11 percent manganese coatings; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00344. few thin strata of loamy fine sand with (7.5YR 4/3) coatings.; (10YR 5/3) sand stripings; (7.5YR 5/6) concentrations
    2C—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); massive; friable; 1 percent manganese coatings; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # WVU00345. very fine sandy loam/ silt loam; (10YR 5/3) concentrations; few pockets of loamy sand; many fine mica flakes