IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buchanan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009WV167-515
  • User Pedon ID: S09WV167515
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0997
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24664
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.6499443
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7901077
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Upper Clay Run watershed; Coopers Rock State Park.
  • Map Unit: BeC—Buchanan and Ernest very stony soils, 8 to 15 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: NOLL/CARPENTER
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, semiactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 515
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buchanan
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, semiactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2009
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: acid silty solifluction deposits derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pottsville group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    weakly coherent

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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

    7

    —

    —

    636.6

    —

    220

    1322

    —

    153

    8.5

    18.8

    -2.7

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    —

    —

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    WV1900

    Coopers Rock St Forest

    WETS
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) slightly decomposed plant material; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03802; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03803; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—6 to 10 centimeters (2.4 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03804; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—10 to 17 centimeters (3.9 to 6.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03805; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—17 to 25 centimeters (6.7 to 9.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03806; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490809; continuous - phpvsfiid 490809
    Bt2—25 to 52 centimeters (9.8 to 20.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, iron depletions throughout; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03807; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490810; continuous - phpvsfiid 490810
    Btx1—52 to 72 centimeters (20.5 to 28.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face silt loam; strong medium prismatic parts to weak medium platy structure; very firm; 35 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on top faces of peds and 35 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 3 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03808; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490811; continuous - phpvsfiid 490812; continuous - phpvsfiid 490811; continuous - phpvsfiid 490812
    Btx2—72 to 116 centimeters (28.3 to 45.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face channery loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 35 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, iron-manganese masses on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03809; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490813; continuous - phpvsfiid 490813
    Btx3—116 to 150 centimeters (45.7 to 59.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very firm; 10 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 20-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # 09N03810; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490814; continuous - phpvsfiid 490814