IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shouns
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017WV093002
  • User Pedon ID: S2017WV093002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2017WV093002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0059
  • User Project ID: 6MOR-2021-005
  • Project Name: MLRA 127 - Investigation of Cateache map units in CVNWR
  • 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: 39.1421000
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6428500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge sample point from Field Week 2017 in the frigid perudic Mauch Chunk.
  • Map Unit: ChE—Calvin channery silt loam, neutral substratum, 30 to 40 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV093—Tucker
  • 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: WV602—Tucker County and Northern Randolph County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39079-B3—Mount Storm Lake, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Skip Bell, Chris Seitz, Jeff Thomas, Mike Jones, Dave Kingsbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shouns
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Typic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/2017
  • Classifier - C Seitz
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone over residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Mauch Chunk group .
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 1.00 percent nonflat 76- to 250-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): Stratum SYMBOL COMMON NAME %GD COVER Over—Mid—Hawthorn - SPOTTY Herb Thin Balded Grass Strawberry bunches vine Golden Rod White Puffy Flower; 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: 9/19/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Skip, Chris, Jeff, Mike, Dave
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CRATA

    SOLID

    Crataegus

    Solidago

    hawthorn

    goldenrod

    tree

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    understory

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

    argillic horizon

    5—155

    —150—
    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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    978.4

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    262

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N00393; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) rubbed stratified silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; many very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; very abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N00394; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—5 to 11 centimeters (2.0 to 4.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots and few fine roots; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N00395; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1591273; patchy - phpvsfiid 1591273
    Bt2—11 to 32 centimeters (4.3 to 12.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) channery silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N00396; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1591274; patchy - phpvsfiid 1591274
    Bt3—32 to 67 centimeters (12.6 to 26.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) channery silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few very fine roots; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N00397; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1591275; patchy - phpvsfiid 1591275
    Bt4—67 to 110 centimeters (26.4 to 43.3 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) channery silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N00398; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1591276; patchy - phpvsfiid 1591276
    Bt5—110 to 155 centimeters (43.3 to 61.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N00399; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1591277; patchy - phpvsfiid 1591277
    C—155 to 171 centimeters (61.0 to 67.3 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) extremely channery silt loam; 26 percent clay; firm; 70 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 18N00400; moist when described; observed in pit, small