IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009WV167-540
  • User Pedon ID: S09WV167540
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009WV167-540
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N1000
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24667
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.6467781
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7913589
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Upper Clay Run watershed; Coopers Rock State Park.
  • Map Unit: DaC—Dekalb channery loam, 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 540
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: acid silty residuum weathered from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent strong weathered shale, unspecified at 108cm
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    PRSE2

    QURU

    SMILA2

    Acer rubrum

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus rubra

    Smilax

    red maple

    black cherry

    northern red oak

    greenbrier

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    strongly coherent

    68 - 108

    108 -

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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

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    676.2

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    292

    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 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) highly decomposed plant material; very friable; ; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03828; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—6 to 14 centimeters (2.4 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03829; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—14 to 22 centimeters (5.5 to 8.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular 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 by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03830; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—22 to 50 centimeters (8.7 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 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; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03831; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490835; continuous - phpvsfiid 490835
    Bt2—50 to 60 centimeters (19.7 to 23.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03832; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490836; continuous - phpvsfiid 490836
    BC—60 to 68 centimeters (23.6 to 26.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks and 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 45 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03833; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—68 to 108 centimeters (26.8 to 42.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); massive; very firm; low excavation difficulty; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03834; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—108 centimeters (42.5 inches); slightly rigid; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments.; moist when described;