IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cateache

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S03WV089006 Lick Ck Cateache

User Pedon ID: S03WV089006 Cateache

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 04N0131

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16520

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: 37.7800000

Std. Longitude: -80.7622222

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: on a very steep mountain slope in the Lick Creek watershed;

Map Unit: CeF—Cateache-Berks channery silt loams, 30 to 70 percent slopes

Country: US—United States

State: West Virginia

County: WV089—Summers

MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV613—Mercer and Summers Counties, West Virginia

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37080-G7—Meadow Bridge, West Virginia

PEDON

Describers Name: A B Jenkins

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: OSD pedon

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Cateache

PSC - 9 to 59 cm.

Classificaton Date - 11/18/2009

Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition

Moisture Subclass - udic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Cateache

Classificaton Date - 10/8/2003

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: reddish brown fine-loamy residuum weathered from shale and siltstone

Landform: mountain slope

Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: convex

Slope Shape Down: convex

Runoff: high

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: moderately coherent strong weathered shale and siltstone at 92cm

Geology: Hinton formation of the Mauch Chunk group.

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 10/8/2003 (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

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, paralithic	moderately coherent	92 -	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon	0—9 9—92	—- —-

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
74	—	—	695	—	212	1002	—	141	10.2	19.6	0.3	—	—	—	—	—	WV0580	Beckley VA Hospital	WETS

A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed channery silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bt1—9 to 21 centimeters (3.5 to 8.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 4 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bt2—21 to 53 centimeters (8.3 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 24 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bt3—53 to 75 centimeters (20.9 to 29.5 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Bt4—75 to 92 centimeters (29.5 to 36.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior channery silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small

Cr—92 centimeters (36.2 inches); bedrock; extremely firm; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small