IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peabody
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987WV103003
  • User Pedon ID: S1987WV103003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0240
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60361
  • 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: 39.5627785
  • Std. Longitude: -80.5888901
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In wooded area 100 yards NW of intersection of Lowman Ridge Rd. & N fork of Richwood Run Rd near Chutes Cemetery.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV103—Wetzel
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV103—Wetzel County, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alex Topalanchik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peabody (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 8 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/2015
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peabody
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1987 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    71 - 89

    - 18 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic materials

    0—8

    8—58

    71—89

    —8—

    —50—

    —18—
    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
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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; many (6.9) very fine roots and many (5.6) fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01293. many very fine and fine roots dry matrix color estimated
    Bt1—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.3) medium roots and many (5.5) fine roots; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01294. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine and medium roots
    Bt2—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.5) fine roots; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01295. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    C—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior channery silty clay; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume flat angular very weakly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01296
    Cr—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Weathered red clay shale and siltstone.