IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gaudineer

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S2016WV083001

User Pedon ID: S2016WV083001

Vegetation Plot ID: S2016WV083001

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

User Project ID: 6-MOR127-2017002

Project Name: MLRA 127 - Recorrelation of Dekalb, moist and Dekalb rubbly loam phase map units

Print Date: 12/10/2025

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: 38.6758611

Std. Longitude: -79.8484028

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: On a north aspect backslope in the Crouch Run watershed; about 840 feet south of Forest Service road 49 and 3.7 miles (by road) south east of the intersection of Forest Service roads 49 and 92; Randolph County, WV.

Map Unit: DrE—Dekalb extremely stony loam, moist, 15 to 35 percent slopes

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: WV083—Randolph County, West VirginiaWV603—Randolph County Area, Main Part, West Virginia

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-F7—Wildell, West Virginia

PEDON

Describers Name: J Bell, SJ Teets, C Seitz, J Leonard

Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, superactive, frigid Typic Haplorthods

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: OSD pedon

Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Gaudineer (flagged as OSD)

Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, superactive, frigid Typic Haplorthods

Taxon Kind - series

PSC - 31 to 106 cm.

Classificaton Date - 5/10/2016

Classifier - C Seitz

Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition

Moisture Class - perudic

Moisture SUBClass - typic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: acid colluvium derived from sandstone and shale

Landscape: dissected plateau

Landform: hillslope

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Geology: Kanawha formation of the Pottsville group.

Surface Fragments: 8.00 percent flat subrounded indurated 380- to 600-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 12.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 600- to 2000-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

Vegplot Text Note(s): "other moss" was recorded as being in the understory; NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 5/10/2016 (actual site observation date)

Data Collector: J Bell, SJ Teets, C Seitz, J Leonard

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

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ACRU BEAL2 PIRU ACPE ACPE AMELA BEAL2 FAGR PIRU PIRU NEPE4 LYCOP2 2FERN BAZZA	Acer rubrum Betula alleghaniensis Picea rubens Acer pensylvanicum Acer pensylvanicum Amelanchier Betula alleghaniensis Fagus grandifolia Picea rubens Picea rubens Neckera pennata Lycopodium — Bazzania	red maple yellow birch red spruce striped maple striped maple serviceberry yellow birch American beech red spruce red spruce neckera moss clubmoss Fern or Fern Ally —	tree tree tree tree tree tree tree tree tree tree moss moss — —	— — — — — — — — — — — — — —	overstory overstory overstory understory understory understory understory understory understory understory — understory understory understory

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon spodic horizon	0—27 27—39	—- —-

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
27	—	—	1126	—	355	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt broken boundary.

Oe—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 4.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary.

A—6 to 15 centimeters (2.4 to 5.9 inches); highly organic very stony silt loam; 19 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume subangular 76-163-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume subangular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.

E—15 to 27 centimeters (5.9 to 10.6 inches); 15 percent very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/3) very stony silt loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.2 very fine roots and 0.2 fine roots; 20 percent by volume subangular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; clear broken boundary.

Bs/Bhs—27 to 39 centimeters (10.6 to 15.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/3) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.2 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 0.2 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.

2Bw—39 to 125 centimeters (15.4 to 49.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) extremely stony sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.2 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume subrounded 600-1000-2000 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 12 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-39-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume subrounded 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.

3Cg—125 to 152 centimeters (49.2 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) very channery silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 35 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.