IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Layland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S01WV019008
  • User Pedon ID: S01WV019008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1153
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15610
  • 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: 38.0367167
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9491833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Clifftop area
  • Map Unit: 31F—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: WV605—Fayette and Raleigh Counties, West VirginiaWV705—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: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • 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 - 7/2/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: acid loamy colluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • 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: 7/2/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 731
  • 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

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    Oi2—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oi1—1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 6 centimeters (0.8 to 2.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A/B—6 to 11 centimeters (2.4 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/A—11 to 20 centimeters (4.3 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—20 to 52 centimeters (7.9 to 20.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—52 to 65 centimeters (20.5 to 25.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—65 to 92 centimeters (25.6 to 36.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2BC—92 to 116 centimeters (36.2 to 45.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C—116 to 170 centimeters (45.7 to 66.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable; 30 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small