IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upshur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957WV035002
  • User Pedon ID: 1957WV035002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39666
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 38.8502426
  • Std. Longitude: -81.8606415
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: two miles east of Mt. Alto, one mile south of Route No. 33, along gas line 200 feet east of gravel road
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV035—Jackson
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV735—Jackson County, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1957
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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—18

    18—91

    —18—

    —73—
    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

    5

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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) silty clay loam; strong coarse granular structure; slightly hard, firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30804
    Ap2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30805
    Bt1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A30806
    Bt2—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A30807
    BCt—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A30808
    C1—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) and dusky red (10R 3/2) clay; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine prominent and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine prominent and 1 percent weak red (10R 4/4) fine distinct mottles; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A30809
    C2—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); dusky red (10R 3/2) parachannery silty clay loam; 21 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine prominent and 21 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine prominent and 21 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine prominent and 21 percent gray (10YR 5/1) fine prominent mottles; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 16 percent carbonate concretions; 25 percent by volume flat subangular very weakly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A30810