IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifftop
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06WV067001 Gilpin
  • User Pedon ID: S06WV067001 Gilpin
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06WV067001 Gilpin
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0904
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18988
  • 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: 38.3429444
  • Std. Longitude: -80.8089722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located on wooded hill near Sattler residence on Phillips Run Road, Nicholas County.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV067—Nicholas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38080-C7—Summersville, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. 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 - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 3/10/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 97cm
  • 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: 3/10/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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 - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    EUSID

    FAGR

    ACSA3

    LITU

    QUAL

    QUVE

    ACRU

    Eusideroxylon

    Fagus grandifolia

    Acer saccharum

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    Acer rubrum

    ironwood

    American beech

    sugar maple

    tuliptree

    white oak

    black oak

    red maple

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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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    631.7

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    86

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—1 to 6 centimeters (0.4 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    ABp—6 to 24 centimeters (2.4 to 9.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—24 to 38 centimeters (9.4 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—38 to 49 centimeters (15.0 to 19.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—49 to 80 centimeters (19.3 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—80 to 89 centimeters (31.5 to 35.0 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—89 to 90 centimeters (35.0 to 35.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small