IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pipestem
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03WV089001 Sandstone Shouns
  • User Pedon ID: S03WV089001 Sandstone Shouns
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0124
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16513
  • 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: 37.7526111
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9012500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Summers County, West Virgina; about 2.5 miles south of Sandstone. USGS Meadow Creek, WV topographic quad. This pedon is located within the NPS proclamation boundary.

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pipestem
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shouns
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: reddish brown silty and clayey colluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Mauch Chunk formation of the Mississippian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/2003 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—27

    12—165

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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

    66.6

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    503

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    318

    965

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    12

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—1 to 12 centimeters (0.4 to 4.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed silty clay loam; moderate coarse granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—27 to 53 centimeters (10.6 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 3 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 249662; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 249662
    Bw2—53 to 93 centimeters (20.9 to 36.6 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 8 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 249661; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 249661
    Bw3—93 to 146 centimeters (36.6 to 57.5 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. f-e texture changed from sicl to sil to reflect lab data; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 249660; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 249660
    BC—146 to 165 centimeters (57.5 to 65.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior very channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 8 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 249659; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 249659