IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Escatawba
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003WV083007 Escatawba
  • User Pedon ID: S03WV083007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0114
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16470
  • 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: 38.9449997
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6030579
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Escatawba
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: siliceous fine-loamy colluvium derived from limestone, sandstone, and shale
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, sandstone, and shale
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/2003 (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

    20

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    737

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00568; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and 50 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00569; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—28 to 65 centimeters (11.0 to 25.6 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00570; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—65 to 80 centimeters (25.6 to 31.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00571; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392764; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392764
    2Bt2—80 to 103 centimeters (31.5 to 40.6 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00572; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392763; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392763
    2Bt3—103 to 125 centimeters (40.6 to 49.2 inches); 95 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00573; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392762; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392762
    2BCx—125 to 150 centimeters (49.2 to 59.1 inches); 85 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior and 15 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 04N00574; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392761; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392761