IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cateache
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003WV083008 Cateache
  • User Pedon ID: S03WV083008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0123
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16528
  • 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: 38.6572227
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9152756
  • 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, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cateache
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed fine-loamy residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Geology: Mauch Chunk formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/2003 (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

    47

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    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dusky red (7.5R 3/2) crushed silt loam; 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; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N00635; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—11 to 22 centimeters (4.3 to 8.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine 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 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N00636; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—22 to 52 centimeters (8.7 to 20.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 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; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N00637; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392780; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392780
    Bt2—52 to 75 centimeters (20.5 to 29.5 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N00638; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392779; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392779
    Bt3—75 to 98 centimeters (29.5 to 38.6 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N00639; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392781; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392781
    BCt—98 to 110 centimeters (38.6 to 43.3 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 04N00640; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—110 centimeters (43.3 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small