IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Snowdog
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995WV083001
  • User Pedon ID: 95WV083001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995WV083001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0855
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67862
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.9797516
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6963348
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 500 feet west of USFS road 324 about 2 miles north of the Yellow Creek. entrance to Otter Cr. Wilderness.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV083—Randolph
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV083—Randolph County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-H6—Bowden, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sencindiver, Roy Pyle, Jenkins.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snowdog
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Microfeature: tree-tip mound
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent 15.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/30/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3222-79
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIRU

    Picea rubens

    red spruce

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    0—24

    24—42

    42—105

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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

    17

    100

    50

    1122

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    259

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 95P05410
    L—5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 95P05409. Rock transect = 57.5%.
    Oa—8 to 9 centimeters (3.1 to 3.5 inches); black (N 2/0) broken face muck; 7.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05411
    A—23 to 13 centimeters (9.1 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face channery loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05412
    AB—33 to 24 centimeters (13.0 to 9.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 95P05413
    Bw—61 to 42 centimeters (24.0 to 16.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05414
    Bx1—107 to 65 centimeters (42.1 to 25.6 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face sandy loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium and coarse distinct and 25 percent gray (10YR 6/1) coarse distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, weakly coherent by silica; brittle; 1.0 fine and medium roots between peds; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05415. Roots along prism faces.
    Bx2—165 to 105 centimeters (65.0 to 41.3 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face channery sandy loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) coarse prominent and 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) coarse faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) coarse distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, weakly coherent by silica; brittle; 0.0 roots; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05416
    2C1—267 to 121 centimeters (105.1 to 47.6 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face channery silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; firm; 0.0 roots; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05417
    2C2—307 to 148 centimeters (120.9 to 58.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium distinct and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; massive; firm; 0.0 roots; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05418
    2C3—376 to 159 centimeters (148.0 to 62.6 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face silty clay; massive; firm; 0.0 roots; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05419
    2C4—404 to 205 centimeters (159.1 to 80.7 inches); 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very channery silty clay loam; massive; firm; 0.0 roots; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05420. This horizon was originally split in two breaking at 185cm based on an increase in channers.