IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mandy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995WV093004
  • User Pedon ID: 95WV093004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0086
  • 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: 38.9947205
  • Std. Longitude: -79.4283371
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: North sideslope of Weiss Knob, about .4 miles south of Canaan ski resort.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV093—Tucker
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV093—Tucker County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-H4—Laneville, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jenkins
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3216-99
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    15—88

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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

    36

    70

    30

    1321

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    22

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    L—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P00856. Surface horizon rock transects (2x100') = 15%.
    Oi—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P00857
    Oe—5 to 7 centimeters (2.0 to 2.8 inches); 6.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00858
    A—7 to 17 centimeters (2.8 to 6.7 inches); 90 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00859
    Bw—17 to 53 centimeters (6.7 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots between peds; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00860
    BC—53 to 90 centimeters (20.9 to 35.4 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 fine and medium roots between peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00861
    2C—90 to 110 centimeters (35.4 to 43.3 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face extremely channery fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots around fragments; 5 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00862. FSL texture is outside the range for the series, but sampled as a minor variation from siltstone to finegrained sandstone shale bedrock effects on the substratum.
    2Cr—110 to 110 centimeters (43.3 to 43.3 inches); 85 percent by volume subangular sandstone-siltstone fragments.