IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fenwick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06WV067002 Fenwick
  • User Pedon ID: S06WV067002 Fenwick
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06WV067002 Fenwick
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0905
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18989
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.2040000
  • Std. Longitude: -80.6605833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Nicholas Co. Fenwick TP site located on Jims Branch on the nettie quad.
  • County: WV067—Nicholas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38080-B6—Nettie, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O'Neill, Sattler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fenwick
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fenwick
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/2006
  • 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
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 100cm
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/2006 (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 - 11
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    CARYA

    QUPR2

    QUVE

    SMILA2

    Acer saccharum

    Carya

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus velutina

    Smilax

    sugar maple

    hybrid hickory

    chestnut oak

    black oak

    greenbrier

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

    argillic horizon

    25—82

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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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    828.4

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    280

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; very abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); fragments; very abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Oa—5 to 7 centimeters (2.0 to 2.8 inches); fragments; very abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—7 to 10 centimeters (2.8 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BA—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout and 3.0 very coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 44 centimeters (9.8 to 17.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 5 percent fine and medium distinct iron-manganese concretions throughout; 5 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—44 to 66 centimeters (17.3 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine and medium distinct iron-manganese concretions throughout and 20 percent medium masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium iron depletions; 5 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face loam; 20 percent clay; 20 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine and medium distinct and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine and medium distinct iron-manganese concretions throughout and 25 percent medium masses of oxidized iron and 35 percent medium iron depletions; fragments; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—79 to 100 centimeters (31.1 to 39.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face loam, clay loam; 24 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium and coarse distinct and 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium and coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—100 to 101 centimeters (39.4 to 39.8 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small