IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifftop
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001WV019007
  • User Pedon ID: S2001WV019007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1152
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15609
  • 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: 38.0382996
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9509964
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on a moderately steep convex mountain slope; about 2.3 miles northwest of Clifftop; USGS Winona, WV topographic quadrangle.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV019—Fayette
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV605—Fayette and Raleigh Counties, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A B Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clifftop
  • PSC - 20 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/3/2001 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    very weakly coherent

    91 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—64

    5—-38

    18—-79
    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

    18

    —

    —

    731.5

    —

    67

    1172

    —

    166

    10.9

    20.7

    0.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    WV6591

    Oak Hill

    WETS
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05880; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face channery silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine to coarse roots; 15 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05881; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05882; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 fine to coarse roots; 11 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05883; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face channery silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine to coarse roots; 11 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05884; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.4 very fine to coarse roots; 1 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 01N05885; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very channery silt loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.2 very fine to coarse roots; 1 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments and 30 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 01N05886; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—91 to 101 centimeters (35.8 to 39.8 inches); fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small