IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pipestem
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03WV089007 Lick Ck Shouns
  • User Pedon ID: S03WV089007 Lick Ck Shouns
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0132
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16521
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.7796944
  • Std. Longitude: -80.7619722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located on mountainside behind farm house. (this pedon is not located within the NPS proclamation boundary)

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pipestem
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shouns
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed fine-loamy colluvium derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Mauch Chunk formation.
  • 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
    • 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

    60

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    685

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    225

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed silt loam; strong fine granular, and strong medium granular 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; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—6 to 18 centimeters (2.4 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak 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; 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 45 centimeters (7.1 to 17.7 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—45 to 70 centimeters (17.7 to 27.6 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—70 to 110 centimeters (27.6 to 43.3 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 70 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small