IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-HI-47
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA091-186
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0186
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51129
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 38.5584167
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6657222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Thornwood VA- WV quadrangle; (Highland County, VA); 8500 feet 236 degrees south-southwest of the intersection of Forest Service Roads 633, 633A, and 598B; 14100 feet 181 degrees south-southwest of the intersection of Forest Service Roads 271, 271A, and 806
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA091—Highland
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA091—Highland County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-E6—Thornwood, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 74cm
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—74

    74—

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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

    33

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    1134

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    120

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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); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw1—6 to 26 centimeters (2.4 to 10.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; 13 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01861
    Bw2—26 to 44 centimeters (10.2 to 17.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01862
    Bw3—44 to 77 centimeters (17.3 to 30.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; 19 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01863
    R—77 to 87 centimeters (30.3 to 34.3 inches); fragments.