IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cateache
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003WV101002 Leatherwood Ck Cateache
  • User Pedon ID: S03WV101002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0130
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16519
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 38.4795837
  • Std. Longitude: -80.2971954
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV101—Webster
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV101—Webster County, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cateache
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: red fine-loamy residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Geology: Mauch Chunk formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2003 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • 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

    56

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    676

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00684; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 12 centimeters (0.8 to 4.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) crushed silt loam; weak fine 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; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00685; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—12 to 37 centimeters (4.7 to 14.6 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 40 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, and dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00686; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—37 to 67 centimeters (14.6 to 26.4 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 04N00687; observed in pit, small
    Cr—67 centimeters (26.4 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior; structureless massive; fragments.; observed in pit, small