IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mandy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995WV093005
  • User Pedon ID: S1995WV093005
  • User Site Association ID: 8837
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - N/A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0087
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68168
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 38.9919434
  • Std. Longitude: -79.4294434
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: South slope of Weiss Knob, about .7 miles south of Canaan Ski Resort.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV093—Tucker
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV093—Tucker County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-H4—Laneville, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jenkins, Jim Gorman (WVU)
  • 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: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • PSC - 30 to 100 cm.
  • 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 Typic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3216-99
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    spodic materials

    0—24

    11—46

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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

    35

    46

    15.2

    1311

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    175

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    Oi1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P00863. Rock transects 62%.
    Oi2—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 96P00864
    Oe—5 to 7 centimeters (2.0 to 2.8 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 96P00865
    A—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face highly organic very channery loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 4.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 20-48-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00866
    Bhs—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very channery clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 20-48-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00867
    Bs—26 to 48 centimeters (10.2 to 18.9 inches); 95 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery loam; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular 20-48-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00868
    BC—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 20-48-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00869
    C—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face very channery loam; 13 percent clay; massive; friable; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots around fragments; 10 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 20-48-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 96P00870
    Cr—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); bedrock; 90 percent by volume angular shale-siltstone fragments. Fractured shale bedrock with pockets of soil material.