IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003WV083004 Calvin
  • User Pedon ID: S03WV083004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16467
  • Print Date: 4/6/2025

    • 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: 38.9501152
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6000137
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: near the road at Sully
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV083—Randolph
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV083—Randolph County, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: skeletal, red, noncalcareous shale, siltstone, and sandstone loamy residuum
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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

    64

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00544; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 11 centimeters (0.8 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky 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; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00545; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—11 to 20 centimeters (4.3 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse 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; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00546; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 0 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00547; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—36 to 59 centimeters (14.2 to 23.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00548; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392760; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392760
    2Bt2—59 to 79 centimeters (23.2 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00549; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N00550; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2R—99 centimeters (39.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small