IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sequoia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-BA-19
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA017-158
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0158
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51101
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 38.1713056
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9188889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Minnehaha Springs VA- WV quadrangle; (Pocahontas County, VA); 18500 feet 83 degrees northeast of the intersection of Highways WV-39 and WV-28; 12900 feet 156 degrees southeast of the intersection of Highway WV-28 and Blind Path Road at Westminister Church
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA017—Bath
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA017—Bath County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-B8—Minnehaha Springs, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sequoia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 74 to 110 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 107cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    71—107

    107—

    107—

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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

    10

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    0

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E—6 to 41 centimeters (2.4 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 12 percent sand; 77 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01581
    BE—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 17 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01582
    Bt1—74 to 100 centimeters (29.1 to 39.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct yellow (10YR 7/8) masses of reduced iron and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of reduced iron; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01583
    Bt2—100 to 110 centimeters (39.4 to 43.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct yellow (10YR 7/8) masses of reduced iron; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01584
    2R—110 to 120 centimeters (43.3 to 47.2 inches); fragments.