IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fenwick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WV067004 Fenwick
  • User Pedon ID: S06WV067004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WV067004 Fenwick
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0907
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18991
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.2594185
  • Std. Longitude: -80.5588913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located approximately 2 miles east of Holcomb, following Holcomb Road along Morris Creek, up to Middle Ridge, turn right onto another forest access road, about 150 feet, and the site is to the right or South side of the road, about 50ft from the road, in a stand of rather large red oaks.
  • 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-C5—Camden On Gauley, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Aron 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
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fenwick
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fenwick
  • Classificaton Date - 4/5/2006
  • 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: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 105cm
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/5/2006 (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 - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QURU

    QUAL

    CARYA

    ACRU

    FAGR

    Quercus rubra

    Quercus alba

    Carya

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    northern red oak

    white oak

    hybrid hickory

    red maple

    American beech

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

    reduced matrix

    lithic contact

    57—84

    105—

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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

    2

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    923.6

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    19

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 5-60-155 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03926; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03925; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oi—3 to 1 centimeters (1.2 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03924; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face very channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 40 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 5-60-155 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03927; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct platy weakly coherent cemented with clear boundaries in matrix; 40 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 5-60-155 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03928; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527818; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527818
    Bt2—31 to 57 centimeters (12.2 to 22.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint spherical and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint spherical mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct platy weakly coherent cemented with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03929; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527819; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527819
    Cg1—57 to 84 centimeters (22.4 to 33.1 inches); 80 percent gray (10YR 6/1) broken face and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct platy weakly coherent cemented with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03930; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527817; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527817
    Cg2—84 to 105 centimeters (33.1 to 41.3 inches); 40 percent gray (10YR 6/1) broken face and 35 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 25 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face channery clay loam; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct platy weakly coherent cemented with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 5-60-155 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03931; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—105 to 106 centimeters (41.3 to 41.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small