IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2000WV053301
  • User Pedon ID: 2000WV053301
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47567
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 38.9160806
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1136611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SR 62, 0.2 mi. N of Airport Road, 100 ft. W of road in cultivated field. Camp Conley Area, 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-H1—Cheshire, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elk
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2016
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheeling
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty 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: 5/17/2000 (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—23

    23—81

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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

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00314
    Bt1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent organic stains and 30 percent faint clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00315
    Bt2—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00316. silt loam/loam
    2BC—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00317. few thin strata of loamy fine sand
    2C/B—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loamy sand; single grain; loose; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00318, WVU00319, WVU00320. very friable (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam strata with weak medium subangular blocky structure; few (10YR 5/4) thin strata of "washed out" loamy sand/sand
    2C—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # WVU00321. fine and medium sand; few (10YR 4/4) sandy loam strata