IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highsplint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S02WV019005
  • User Pedon ID: S02WV019005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1123
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15594
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 38.0274444
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1832778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Location: Head of Dempsey Branch Borderline skeletal, good example of how colluvials are not as high in RF's
  • Map Unit: 22F—Berks-Highsplint-Sharondale association, very steep, very stony
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV019—Fayette
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV605—Fayette and Raleigh Counties, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Highsplint
  • Classificaton Date - 12/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Highsplint
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Geology: Kanawha formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: sugar maple, redbud, gum, red oak
  • 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

    49

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    100

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    Oi2—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Oi1—2 to 0 centimeters (0.8 to 0.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 15 centimeters (0.8 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/A—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—23 to 66 centimeters (9.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 25 percent by volume unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 45 percent by volume unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—107 to 119 centimeters (42.1 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 55 percent by volume unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—119 to 147 centimeters (46.9 to 57.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—147 to 170 centimeters (57.9 to 66.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 80 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in pit, small