IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laidig
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WV067003 Laidig
  • User Pedon ID: S06WV067003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WV067003 Laidig
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0906
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18990
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.2069740
  • Std. Longitude: -80.6693573
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located in a road cut along a logging road on the East side of Jims branch. Nettie USGS Quad.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV067—Nicholas
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV067—Nicholas County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38080-B6—Nettie, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sattler, O'Neill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Laidig
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/10/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pottsville group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/10/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 18
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FAGR

    QURU

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    American beech

    northern red 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

    28

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    723.5

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03917; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 13 centimeters (0.8 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; 2 percent by volume nonflat sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03918; observed in pit, small
    BA—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 10 percent by volume nonflat sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume flat sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03919; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—35 to 81 centimeters (13.8 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 14 percent clay; 20 percent by volume nonflat sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03920; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—81 to 175 centimeters (31.9 to 68.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 20 percent clay; 8 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium faint mottles; 30 percent by volume flat sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03921; observed in pit, small
    Btx—175 to 193 centimeters (68.9 to 76.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 22 percent clay; 10 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03922; observed in pit, small
    C—193 to 194 centimeters (76.0 to 76.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct and 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) coarse distinct and 5 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) coarse distinct and 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium distinct mottles; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03923; observed in pit, small