IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cateache
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003WV025001 Cateache
  • User Pedon ID: S03WV025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16522
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.9771385
  • Std. Longitude: -80.6846390
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 53F—CATEACHE SILT LOAM, 35 TO 55 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV025—Greenbrier
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV025—Greenbrier County, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: forestry data site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cateache
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 16 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: red residuum weathered from limestone, sandstone, and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Mauch Chunk formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 28
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    115 - 125

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—16

    16—78

    115—125

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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

    39

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    895

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    88

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 04N00589; observed in pit, small
    Oe—1 to 2 centimeters (0.4 to 0.8 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 04N00590; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; very fine roots throughout and very coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00591; observed in pit, small
    BA—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine roots throughout and very coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00592; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—16 to 28 centimeters (6.3 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine roots throughout and coarse roots throughout; 70 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00593; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392769; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392769
    Bt2—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine roots throughout and coarse roots throughout; 70 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00594; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392768; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392768
    Bt3—53 to 78 centimeters (20.9 to 30.7 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine roots throughout and coarse roots throughout; 40 percent faint 2.5YR 4/5 (2.5YR 4/5), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00595; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392767; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392767
    BC—78 to 99 centimeters (30.7 to 39.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00596; observed in pit, small
    C—99 to 115 centimeters (39.0 to 45.3 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior clay loam; massive; friable; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N00597; observed in pit, small
    Cr—115 to 125 centimeters (45.3 to 49.2 inches); variegated 40 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and 20 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small