IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mandy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995WV083007
  • User Pedon ID: 95WV083007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995WV083007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0084
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.9463882
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7030563
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About .7 miles north of USFS road ??, going out the Little Black Fork Trail, about .5 miles east of Stuart Knob and about 2.2 miles northwest of Bear Heaven Recreation Area and Campground.
  • 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: Jenkins, Gorman
  • 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
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3222-56
  • 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

    FAGR

    PIRU

    Fagus grandifolia

    Picea rubens

    American beech

    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

    0—18

    18—91

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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

    37

    90

    50

    1123

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    266

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); flaggy peat; 4.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00842
    L—1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P00841. Rock transect = 72.5%.
    Oe—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); flaggy mucky peat; 6.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00843
    A—6 to 18 centimeters (2.4 to 7.1 inches); 50 percent black (10YR 2/1) broken face and 50 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face very channery silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00844
    Bw—18 to 63 centimeters (7.1 to 24.8 inches); 95 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00845
    BC—63 to 91 centimeters (24.8 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face extremely channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 very fine and fine roots between peds; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 96P00846
    R—91 to 116 centimeters (35.8 to 45.7 inches); fragments.