IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cateache
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03WV089006 Lick Ck Cateache
  • User Pedon ID: S03WV089006 Cateache
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0131
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16520
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024
  • 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: 37.7800000
  • Std. Longitude: -80.7622222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on a very steep mountain slope in the Lick Creek watershed;
  • Map Unit: CeF—Cateache-Berks channery silt loams, 30 to 70 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV089—Summers
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV613—Mercer and Summers Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37080-G7—Meadow Bridge, West Virginia
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A B Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cateache
  • PSC - 9 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cateache
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: reddish brown fine-loamy residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent strong weathered shale and siltstone at 92cm
  • Geology: Hinton formation of the Mauch Chunk group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/2003 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    92 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—9

    9—92

    —-

    —-

    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

    74

    695

    212

    1002

    141

    10.2

    19.6

    0.3

    WV0580

    Beckley VA Hospital

    WETS

    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed channery silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; very 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; 2 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—9 to 21 centimeters (3.5 to 8.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine 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; 4 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—21 to 53 centimeters (8.3 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 24 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—53 to 75 centimeters (20.9 to 29.5 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—75 to 92 centimeters (29.5 to 36.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior channery silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—92 centimeters (36.2 inches); bedrock; extremely firm; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small