IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chavies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017WV081001
  • User Pedon ID: S2017WV081001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0261
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 37.8325556
  • Std. Longitude: -81.0519444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located on a floodplain terrace 55 yards South of the New River, 160 yards West of the mouth of Mill Creek, 1.5 miles Northeast of the town of Grandview, Raleigh County, WV.
  • Map Unit: CxA—Craigsville very gravelly sandy loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes, extremely stony, rarely flooded
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV081—Raleigh
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MOR—Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV622—New River Gorge National River, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37081-G1—Prince, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jared Beard, Aron Sattler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chavies
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2017
  • Classifier - Jared Beard
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jared Beard, Aron Sattler
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other shrub cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—41

    53—160

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    —107—
    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

    2

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    A—0 to 24 centimeters (0.0 to 9.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face loamy sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01961; observed in auger, bucket
    BA—24 to 41 centimeters (9.4 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face loamy sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01962; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01963; observed in auger, bucket
    E and Bt1—53 to 96 centimeters (20.9 to 37.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01964; observed in auger, bucket. This horizon was seen in a bucket auger and so it was difficult to determine the horizon designation, structure, and boundaries. The matrix had bands of 5YR 4/4 loamy sand. These bands were 1 cm thick and very abrupt boundaries.
    E and Bt2—96 to 128 centimeters (37.8 to 50.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01965; observed in auger, bucket. This horizon was seen in a bucket auger and so it was difficult to determine the horizon designation, structure, and boundaries. The matrix had bands of 5YR 4/6 loamy sand. These bands were 2 cm thick and very abrupt boundaries.
    E and Bt3—128 to 160 centimeters (50.4 to 63.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01966; observed in auger, bucket. This horizon was seen in a bucket auger and so it was difficult to determine the horizon designation, structure, and boundaries. The matrix had bands of 5YR 4/4 loamy sand. These bands were 2 cm thick and very abrupt boundaries.
    C—160 to 191 centimeters (63.0 to 75.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face loamy sand; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01967; observed in auger, bucket