IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mandy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12WV083001
  • User Pedon ID: S12WV083001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12WV083001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71053
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.8565639
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6554556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site is located on McCray Ridge at the Hampshire/Chemung geologic break.
  • Map Unit: BgE—Berks channery silt loam, moist, 25 to 35 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV083—Randolph
  • 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: WV603—Randolph County Area, Main Part, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-G6—Glady, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Beard, Bell, Buckland, Dilliplane, Heltzel, Teets
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2014
  • Classifier - J Bell
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Spodic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: frost-churned loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: upper third mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent moderate weathered siltstone, unspecified at 120cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Hampshire formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 23
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    MAFR

    PIRU

    PRSE2

    ACPE

    FAGR

    PIRU

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Magnolia fraseri

    Picea rubens

    Prunus serotina

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Picea rubens

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    mountain magnolia

    red spruce

    black cherry

    striped maple

    American beech

    red spruce

    eastern hemlock

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    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

    understory

    understory

    understory

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    120 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—10

    10—54

    54—76

    120—

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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

    45

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    944.9

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    8

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    Oi/Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material, moderately decomposed plant material; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) highly organic silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs1—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; nonsmeary; 0.3 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs2—26 to 54 centimeters (10.2 to 21.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) channery silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; nonsmeary; 0.2 very fine roots throughout and 0.3 very coarse roots throughout and 0.3 medium roots throughout and 0.2 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—54 to 76 centimeters (21.3 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 27 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC—76 to 120 centimeters (29.9 to 47.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely flaggy silt loam; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 150-?-380 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    R—120 to 145 centimeters (47.2 to 57.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry