IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wheeling
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999WV053300
  • User Pedon ID: 1999WV053300
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47565
  • Print Date: 4/25/2024
  • 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: 38.8986111
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1280556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 120 paces W from the silo, 10 paces N in a cultivated field. Old Town Farms Upper Dairy, Mason County
  • Map Unit: WsA—Wheeling silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV053—Mason
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV600—Jackson and Mason Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38082-H2—Addison, Ohio
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheeling
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2016
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheeling
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tim Dilliplane
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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—30

    30—109

    —30—

    —79—

    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

    180

    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00298
    Ap2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00299
    BA—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00300
    Bt1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00301. silt loam/ loam
    Bt2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent manganese coatings on faces of peds and 1 percent manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00302. silt loam/ loam; few (10YR 5/8) streaks at horizon base.
    Bt3—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent manganese coatings on faces of peds; 11 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00303
    E and Bt1—109 to 147 centimeters (42.9 to 57.9 inches); 55 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 45 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; fine sandy loam, sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 30 percent clay bridges between sand grains; 11 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00304, WVU00305. continuous - phpvsfiid 722293; continuous - phpvsfiid 722293
    E and Bt2—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sandy loam, loamy sand; massive, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak platy; friable; 10 percent clay bridges; 1 percent manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00306, WVU00307, WVU00308