IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oaklet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005WV037191
  • User Pedon ID: 2005WV037191
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0624
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18142
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.2478065
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0044250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in an idle field, on CR-13, about 100 feet east of the intersection of CR-13/1 and CR-13, then 20 feet south onto a convex sideslope; Stephenson topographic quadrangle, elevation 575 feet.
  • Map Unit: OeB—Oaklet silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very rocky
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV037—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV037—Jefferson County, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jared Beard, Joe Kraft
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Vertic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon CE
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oaklet
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: karst
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 180cm
  • Geology: Rockdale Run formation of the Beekmantown group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    180 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—71

    79—180

    180—

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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

    7

    30

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    175

    —

    270

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 4.0 medium moderate-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 3 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); 75 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 25 percent clay; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine irregular and 4.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); 90 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face clay; 55 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium prominent mottles; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 75 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent fine distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 14 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-36-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); 85 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 15 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face channery clay; 85 percent clay; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium prominent mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 4.0 fine irregular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 30 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds and 75 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 29 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-36-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btss1—79 to 112 centimeters (31.1 to 44.1 inches); 78 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 22 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face channery clay; 80 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 70 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds and 75 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent coarse prominent black (N 2.5/), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-36-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btss2—112 to 180 centimeters (44.1 to 70.9 inches); 63 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 22 percent black (N 2.5/), exterior and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face clay; 70 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 55 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds and 75 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct manganese masses; 2 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—180 centimeters (70.9 inches); extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small