IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fenwick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WV101002 Fenwick
  • User Pedon ID: S06WV101002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WV101002 Fenwick
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0912
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18996
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.3549995
  • Std. Longitude: -80.4911118
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: approximately 60ft. East of Mills Mountain Road (on ridge) on Mills Mtn.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV101—Webster
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV101—Webster County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38080-C4—Webster Springs SW, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.O'Neill
  • 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 #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fenwick
  • PSC - 24 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fenwick
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 72cm
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/6/2006 (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 - 18
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    SMILA2

    LITU

    QURU

    BELE

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Smilax

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus rubra

    Betula lenta

    sugar maple

    American beech

    greenbrier

    tuliptree

    northern red oak

    sweet birch

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    72 - 73

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

    argillic horizon

    24—54

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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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    923.5

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    232

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03969; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—2 to 0 centimeters (0.8 to 0.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03970; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—4 to 16 centimeters (1.6 to 6.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) crushed channery silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 150-200-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular 5-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03971; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AE—16 to 25 centimeters (6.3 to 9.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) crushed channery loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 150-200-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular 5-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03972; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face channery silt loam; weak 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; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 150-200-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular 5-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03973; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—40 to 56 centimeters (15.7 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) 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; 2 percent fine distinct very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular 10-60-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03974; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—56 to 72 centimeters (22.0 to 28.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 2 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 2 percent fine distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 2 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 2 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 2 percent medium distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 2 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular 150-200-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 06N03975; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—72 centimeters (28.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small