IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oaklet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005WV037002
  • User Pedon ID: S2005WV037002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0625
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18143
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 39.2733333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9983333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: VeB—Vertrees silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV037—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV037—Jefferson County, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JB,JK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Vertic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oaklet
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown & Frederick
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: karst
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified
  • Geology: Rockdale Run formation of the Beekmantown group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    0—20

    20—183

    79—183

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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

    6

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    315

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silty clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 medium moderate-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 12 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face channery silty clay loam; 45 percent clay; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine irregular and 4.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 17 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face clay; 75 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; very high excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds and 75 percent prominent red (10R 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent fine distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-36-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339511; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339511
    Bt2—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face clay; 72 percent clay; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine irregular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds and 75 percent prominent red (10R 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-36-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339525; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 339525
    Btss1—79 to 163 centimeters (31.1 to 64.2 inches); 65 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 35 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; 75 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 70 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds and 75 percent prominent red (10R 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent coarse prominent black (N 2.5/), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 12 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-36-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btss2—163 to 188 centimeters (64.2 to 74.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face clay; 65 percent clay; 15 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 55 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds and 75 percent prominent red (10R 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium and coarse prominent black (N 2.5/), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct manganese masses; 1 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments.; observed in pit, small