IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mandy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12WV075004
  • User Pedon ID: S12WV075004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12WV075004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8060
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72872
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 38.7170167
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7402917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site is located off of Middle Mountain Rd. and Forest Rd. 35 in the Snorting Lick Watershed.
  • Map Unit: MfF—Mandy channery silt loam, 35 to 55 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV075—Pocahontas
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MOR—Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV075—Pocahontas County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-F7—Wildell, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Spodic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Spodic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 33 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: frost-churned loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 94cm
  • Geology: Chemung formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 23.00 percent 23.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2012 (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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 13
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    BELE

    FAGR

    MAFR

    PRSE2

    SMILA2

    Acer saccharum

    Betula lenta

    Fagus grandifolia

    Magnolia fraseri

    Prunus serotina

    Smilax

    sugar maple

    sweet birch

    American beech

    mountain magnolia

    black cherry

    greenbrier

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    65 - 94

    94 -

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

    fibric soil materials

    hemic soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—1

    1—5

    8—15

    15—46

    65—94

    94—

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    Pedon Horizon Bulk Density
    Horizon Depth to Top Depth to Bottom Method Data Collector Field Moist Volume Field Moist Sample Wt. Air Dry Sample Wt. Field Moist Co. Fragment Wt. Air Dry Fragment Wt. Fragment Density Coarse Fragment Volume Air Dry Subsample Wt. Oven Dry Subsample Wt. Grav Soil Moist % Whole Soil Grav Soil Moist % Fine Earth Bulk Density FM Fine Soil Bulk Density FM Whole Soill Bulk Density OD fINE Earth Bulk Density OD Fine Earth Bulk Density Satiated
    cm cm3 g g/cm3 cm3 g % g/cm3

    AE

    8

    15

    compliant cavity

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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

    31

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    1115.6

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    290

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03184; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Oe—1 to 5 centimeters (0.4 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03185; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Oa/A—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material, highly organic silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; charcoal fragments and 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03186; observed in pit, large or quarry
    AE—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) highly organic channery silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03187; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs/Bhs—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); 88 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 12 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) very channery silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; weakly smeary; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 0.2 coarse roots throughout; 25 percent on all faces of peds; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03188; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC—46 to 65 centimeters (18.1 to 25.6 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) extremely channery silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03189; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Cr—65 to 94 centimeters (25.6 to 37.0 inches); bedrock; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    R—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket