IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cookport
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WV025001 Cookport
  • User Pedon ID: S06WV025001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WV025001 Cookport
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0903
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18987
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.7466660
  • Std. Longitude: -80.5899963
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site is approximately that of the OSD type location. Follow Rt.12 south from the Alta exit of I-64, turn left onto Muddy Creek Mountain Road (county Rt.40), go 2.6 miles (past Alderson Churche of the Nazarene), turn right at mailboxes (just before sandstone quarry), follow gravel/dirt road past a pond, and park once through a gate. Site is approximately 75 ft southwest of the road.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV025—Greenbrier
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV025—Greenbrier County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37080-F5—Fort Spring, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sattler,O'Neill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cookport
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • PSC - 16 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 127cm
  • Geology: Bluefield formation of the Mauch Chunk group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/11/2006 (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 - 17
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    KALA

    PIST

    QUPR2

    QUAL

    Kalmia latifolia

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus alba

    mountain laurel

    eastern white pine

    chestnut oak

    white oak

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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

    3

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    738.4

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    295

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03894; observed in pit, small
    Oe—2 to 4 centimeters (0.8 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03895; observed in pit, small
    Oa/A—4 to 7 centimeters (1.6 to 2.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed highly decomposed plant material, silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03896; observed in pit, small. horizon features such as color reflect those of the A material/portion of this horizon.
    AE—7 to 19 centimeters (2.8 to 7.5 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine 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; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03897; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—19 to 53 centimeters (7.5 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; moderate medium 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; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03898; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—53 to 62 centimeters (20.9 to 24.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03899; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx—62 to 105 centimeters (24.4 to 41.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse prismatic, and strong very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and fine distinct weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03900; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    C—105 to 130 centimeters (41.3 to 51.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face sandy loam; structureless massive; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03901; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    R—130 centimeters (51.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small