IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westmoreland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017WV061003
  • User Pedon ID: S2017WV061003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0895
  • 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: 39.6510833
  • Std. Longitude: -80.0566667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located in Monongalia County southwest of Jere; on CR 43 Sugar Grove Rd, on a reclaimed strip mine, near Higgins Knob; 2.5 miles west of the Star City/Osage exit 155 of Interstate 79.
  • Map Unit: WeD—Westmoreland silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV061—Monongalia
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV611—Marion and Monongalia Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39080-F1—Osage, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Hoover, Katie Stutler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2017
  • Classifier - Debby Cunningham
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy skeletal coal extraction mine spoil derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Anthropogenic Feature: bench surface mine
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: S. Hoover, K. Stutler
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    4 - 110

    - 106 -

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

    human-altered material

    ochric epipedon

    densic contact

    0—110

    0—4

    4—4

    —110—

    —4—

    —0—
    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

    8

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    378

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    ^A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); 95 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) distinct mottles; weak fine granular structure; firm; many (10.0) very fine roots; 2 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 17N04378; observed in pit, small
    ^C1—4 to 18 centimeters (1.6 to 7.1 inches); 95 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) distinct mottles; structureless massive; very firm; common (4.0) fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-10-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04379; observed in pit, small
    ^C2—18 to 40 centimeters (7.1 to 15.7 inches); 90 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) coarse distinct and 5 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; very firm; common (3.0) very fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-10-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-47-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04380; observed in pit, small
    ^C3—40 to 69 centimeters (15.7 to 27.2 inches); 96 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay; 42 percent clay; 4 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; friable; common (2.0) very fine roots; 4 percent medium iron-manganese masses on faces of peds and 5 percent coarse distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions around rock fragments and 10 percent coarse distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese nodules; 10 percent coarse distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist,; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-10-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-47-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04381; observed in pit, small. This C3 horizon was observed to be near saturation, very moist to touch.
    ^C4—69 to 110 centimeters (27.2 to 43.3 inches); 95 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very stony silty clay; 45 percent clay; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; structureless massive; friable; common (1.0) very fine roots; 45 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 380-525-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 17N04382; observed in pit, small. This C4 horizon was observed to be near saturation, very moist to touch.