IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S01WV019006 Dekalb
  • User Pedon ID: S01WV019006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S01WV019006 Dekalb
  • User Site Association ID: New River and Associated Rec Areas
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1151
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15608
  • 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: 38.0916667
  • Std. Longitude: -81.0750000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a forested area about 0.5 miles north of the community of Ames Heights, West Virginia
  • Map Unit: LeF—Layland-Dekalb-Guyandotte complex, 35 to 70 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV019—Fayette
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MOR—Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV705—Fayette and Raleigh Counties Area, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38081-A1—Fayetteville, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jenkins, Tony
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • PSC - 25 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Matewan
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 68cm
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    BELE

    FAGR

    HAMAM

    NYSY

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Betula lenta

    Fagus grandifolia

    Hamamelis

    Nyssa sylvatica

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    sweet birch

    American beech

    witchhazel

    blackgum

    eastern hemlock

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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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

    47

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    488

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 01N05872; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05873; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face highly organic very channery sandy loam; moderate medium crumb structure; very friable; 55 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 01N05874; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—12 to 21 centimeters (4.7 to 8.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face extremely channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 60 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 01N05875; moist when described; observed in pit, small. horizon designation changed from B/E to Bw1.
    Bw2—21 to 38 centimeters (8.3 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face very channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05876; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—38 to 55 centimeters (15.0 to 21.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) broken face very channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05877; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—55 to 68 centimeters (21.7 to 26.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) broken face extremely channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 60 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N05878; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—68 centimeters (26.8 inches); bedrock; very friable; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small