IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Carbo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S02-WV037-003
  • User Pedon ID: S02WV037003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0033
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47589
  • 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: 39.3116667
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7883333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Blue Ridge Outfitters near Precast Concrete on Route 340; Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County Carbo
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV037—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV037—Jefferson County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-C7—Charles Town, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jared Beard
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Carbo
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: limestone
  • Landform: knob
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/22/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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
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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silty clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00035
    AB—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00036
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; very sticky; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00037
    Bt2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; 11 percent medium black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00038
    Bt3—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay; 1 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) coarse and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) coarse mottles; 11 percent medium black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00039
    R—71 centimeters (28.0 inches); fragments.