IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buchanan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009WV167-510
  • User Pedon ID: S09WV167510
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009WV167-510
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0996
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24663
  • 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: 39.6504440
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7897797
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Upper Clay Run watershed; Coopers Rock State Park.
  • Map Unit: DdE—Dekalb very stony loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV061—Monongalia
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV611—Marion and Monongalia Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39079-F7—Lake Lynn, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SATTLER/BECK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 510
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buchanan
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: acid silty solifluction deposits derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, unspecified at 175cm
  • Geology: Pottsville group .
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 150- to 600-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 5.00 percent flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2- to 150-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    CARYA

    SMILA2

    Acer rubrum

    Carya

    Smilax

    red maple

    hybrid hickory

    greenbrier

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

    fragipan

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    moderately coherent

    59 - 117

    117 -

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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

    15

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    643.6

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    118

    1322

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    153

    8.5

    18.8

    -2.7

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    WV1900

    Coopers Rock St Forest

    WETS
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03793
    Oe—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03794
    A—6 to 10 centimeters (2.4 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face loam; 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 very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03795
    BE—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face 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; 12 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03796
    Bt1—24 to 37 centimeters (9.4 to 14.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent faint light olive (10Y 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03797. continuous - phpvsfiid 490804; continuous - phpvsfiid 490804
    Bt2—37 to 59 centimeters (14.6 to 23.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint iron depletions in matrix; 12 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03798. continuous - phpvsfiid 490805; continuous - phpvsfiid 490805
    Btx1—59 to 80 centimeters (23.2 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots top of horizon and 1.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots top of horizon and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on top faces of peds; and 5 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions on vertical faces of peds; 12 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03799. continuous - phpvsfiid 490806; continuous - phpvsfiid 490807; continuous - phpvsfiid 490806; continuous - phpvsfiid 490807
    Btx2—80 to 117 centimeters (31.5 to 46.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate fine platy structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses on vertical faces of peds; 12 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03800. continuous - phpvsfiid 490808; continuous - phpvsfiid 490808
    Cr—117 to 150 centimeters (46.1 to 59.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1); weak medium granular structure; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 09N03801