IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laidig
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WV019001 Laidig
  • User Pedon ID: S06WV019001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WV019001 Laidig
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0898
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18982
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.0149994
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9702759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: This site is located in a cut at a borrow pit along a road bed, approximately .5 mile North of the Camp Washington-Carver lodge, just outside of the state park boundary, in Fayette County, on Winona USGS quad.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV019—Fayette
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV605—Fayette and Raleigh Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38080-A8—Winona, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Skip Bell,Jim Thompson,Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Laidig
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/2018
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Laidig
  • Classificaton Date - 4/19/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent nonflat subangular sandstone, unspecified, 25.00 percent nonflat subangular sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/19/2006 (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 - 22
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    MAFR

    QUAL

    QURU

    TIAM

    Acer rubrum

    Magnolia fraseri

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    Tilia americana

    red maple

    mountain magnolia

    white oak

    northern red oak

    American basswood

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

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    18—104

    104—141

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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

    10

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    732.6

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03856; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed gravelly loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-35-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03857; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-35-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03858; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); 95 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-35-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03859; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-35-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03860; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 60 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-10-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-15-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03861; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    3Bx—104 to 141 centimeters (40.9 to 55.5 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face gravelly sandy loam; moderate coarse platy structure; firm; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-15-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03862; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    3BC—141 to 165 centimeters (55.5 to 65.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face very cobbly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-15-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-90-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03863; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    4C—165 to 200 centimeters (65.0 to 78.7 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 30 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face very cobbly sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; 5 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-15-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-120-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03864; moist when described; observed in pit, small