IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979WV067005
  • User Pedon ID: 79WV067005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0243
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46976
  • Print Date: 5/5/2025

    • 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: 38.2861099
  • Std. Longitude: -81.0677795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wooded area .80 km S of head of Twomile branch on ridgetop at head of the left fork on Line Creek.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV067—Nicholas
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul Amick and Charles Delp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    O1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled. Mixed hardwood leaf litter.
    O2—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled.
    A1—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01269. common roots
    A2—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01270
    B1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; silt loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01271. many roots
    B21—28 to 49 centimeters (11.0 to 19.3 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dry; silt loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01272. many roots
    B22—49 to 72 centimeters (19.3 to 28.3 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01273. common roots
    B3—72 to 79 centimeters (28.3 to 31.1 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior, dry; shaly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01274. few roots
    C—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior, dry; shaly silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 1 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) mottles; massive; firm; 0.2 roots; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01275. very few to few roots; very few to few 10YR54 mottles; very few to few 10YR72 mottles; very few to few 2.5YR58 mottles
    R—102 to 150 centimeters (40.2 to 59.1 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Siltstone and shale.