IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986WV059005
  • User Pedon ID: 86WV059005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0678
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58972
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 37.9300003
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2827759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mingo County, WV, 1 mi SW of Breeden.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV059—Mingo
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Barrie Wolf and Lawson Spivey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    70

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    539

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    315

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior very channery sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; loose; 5.5 fine and medium roots and 5.5 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03946. 35 percent rock fragments.; many fine and medium roots; many coarse roots
    1BA—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03947. 25 percent rock fragments.; many fine and medium roots
    1Bw1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03948. 45 percent rock fragments.; many fine and medium roots
    1Bw2—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03949. 50 percent rock fragments.; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    1R—58 to 68 centimeters (22.8 to 26.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard, brown sandstone bedrock.