IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifftop
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979WV067011
  • User Pedon ID: 79WV067011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0249
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46982
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 38.2819443
  • Std. Longitude: -80.7344437
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located on Ward Road in a road out about .80 km NW of Ward Road Church, Nicholas County.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV067—Nicholas
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul Amik and Charles Delp.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clifftop
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    1A 1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01309. many roots
    1O 2—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled.
    1A 2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01310. many roots
    1O 1—8 to 3 centimeters (3.1 to 1.2 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled. Mixed hardwood leaf litter.
    1B 1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.5 roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01311. many roots
    1B2t—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior shaly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots; 37 percent , moist, clay films; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01312. common clay films surface features; many roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527805; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527805
    1B 3t—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior shaly silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01313
    1C—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very shaly silty clay loam; massive; firm; 0.5 roots; 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01314. few roots
    1R—66 to 74 centimeters (26.0 to 29.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Highly weathered, soft siltstone.