IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nallen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S01WV019003
  • User Pedon ID: S01WV019003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1148
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15605
  • 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: 38.1136944
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9246667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on a strongly sloping ridgetop, about 2.5 miles west of the town of Nallen; USGS Winona, WV topographic quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: CnC—Clifftop-Nallen complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • 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: 38080-A8—Winona, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jenkins, Tony
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nallen
  • PSC - 23 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lily
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 86cm
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/2001 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—48

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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

    12

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    —

    —

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    1078

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    155

    10.7

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05847; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 4 centimeters (1.2 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05848; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; 48 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05849; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; 47 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05850; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 44 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05851; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 49 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05852; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05853; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—86 to 96 centimeters (33.9 to 37.8 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; none odor; noneffervescent.; moist when described; observed in pit, small