IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Layland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S01WV019001 Layland
  • User Pedon ID: S01WV019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1146
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15603
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.8819444
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9758333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on a very steep mountain slope about 1.5 miles south of Layland Heights; USGS Danese, WV topographic quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: LDF—Layland-Dekalb-Guyandotte association, very steep, extremely stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV019—Fayette
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MOR—Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV705—Fayette and Raleigh Counties Area, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37080-H8—Danese, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.Jenkins, R.Pate
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Layland
  • Classificaton Date - 12/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Highsplint
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal colluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/8/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    54

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 15 centimeters (0.8 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume 75-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oi—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A/B—15 to 22 centimeters (5.9 to 8.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—22 to 38 centimeters (8.7 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—38 to 72 centimeters (15.0 to 28.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 22 percent by volume 75-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—72 to 117 centimeters (28.3 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—117 to 145 centimeters (46.1 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 7 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and 2.5Y 5/8 (2.5Y 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 7 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, iron depletions throughout; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—145 to 170 centimeters (57.1 to 66.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; massive; friable; 2 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, iron depletions throughout and 2 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in pit, small