IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifftop
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06WV019005 Gilpin
  • User Pedon ID: S06WV019005 Gilpin
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06WV019005 Gilpin
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0902
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18986
  • 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: 37.9419833
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1951722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located approximately 100 feet North of dirt road (directly across the road from a gate), to the East of Plum Orchard Lake, to the Southwest of the city of Oak Hill, Fayette County. Oak Hill USGS topo quad.
  • County: WV019—Fayette
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37081-H2—Oak Hill, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clifftop
  • PSC - 17 to 37 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered shale, unspecified at 69cm
  • Geology: Kanawha formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • 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: 5/23/2006 (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
  • Current Air Temp - 17
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    NYSY

    QUAL

    QUCO2

    QUPR2

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Nyssa sylvatica

    Quercus alba

    Quercus coccinea

    Quercus prinus

    red maple

    sugar maple

    blackgum

    white oak

    scarlet oak

    chestnut oak

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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

    23

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    601.9

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    200

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—2 to 4 centimeters (0.8 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—4 to 10 centimeters (1.6 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; weak fine and 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; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-50-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/A—10 to 17 centimeters (3.9 to 6.7 inches); 65 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-50-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—17 to 35 centimeters (6.7 to 13.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subangular 2-50-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—35 to 60 centimeters (13.8 to 23.6 inches); 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face channery silty clay loam; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 5 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; clay films on rock fragments; 40 percent by volume flat subangular 2-50-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—60 to 69 centimeters (23.6 to 27.2 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face extremely channery silty clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) mottles; structureless massive; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume flat subangular 76-150-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume flat subangular 2-50-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small