IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-BA-14
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-WV075-153
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0153
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51096
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.0847583
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9494333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mountain Grove VA- WV quadrangle; (Pocahontas, VA); 16500 feet 218 degrees southwest of the intersection of Highways VA-39 and VA-601; 15200 feet 277 degrees northwest of the southern intersection of Highwyas VA-39 and VA-600
  • Map Unit: 27D—Lehew-Berks complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV075—Pocahontas
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA017—Bath County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-A8—Mountain Grove, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone and shale at 64cm
  • 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

    8—41

    64—

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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

    31

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    1000

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    342

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) channery fine sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 12 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01531, VPI01532
    Bw—13 to 44 centimeters (5.1 to 17.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very flaggy fine sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01533, VPI01531
    C—44 to 67 centimeters (17.3 to 26.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) extremely flaggy fine sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 32 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 32 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01531, VPI01534
    R—67 to 77 centimeters (26.4 to 30.3 inches); fragments.