IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buchanan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009WV167-520
  • User Pedon ID: S09WV167520
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0998
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24665
  • 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: 39.6491928
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7903061
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Upper Clay Run watershed; Coopers Rock State Park.
  • Map Unit: BeC—Buchanan and Ernest very stony soils, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV061—Monongalia
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV611—Marion and Monongalia Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39079-F7—Lake Lynn, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: NOLL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, semiactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 520
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buchanan
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, semiactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2009
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: acid silty solifluction deposits derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pottsville group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/2009 (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

    fragipan

    weakly coherent

    65 -

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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

    10

    —

    —

    635.9

    —

    2

    1322

    —

    153

    8.5

    18.8

    -2.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    WV1900

    Coopers Rock St Forest

    WETS
    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) slightly decomposed plant material; very friable; and and and ; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03811; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular 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 strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03812; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03813; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03814; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490821; continuous - phpvsfiid 490821
    Bt2—38 to 65 centimeters (15.0 to 25.6 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine platy structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent coarse distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03815; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490822; continuous - phpvsfiid 490822
    Btx1—65 to 74 centimeters (25.6 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak fine platy structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and ; 35 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on top faces of peds; 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 15 percent coarse light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 15 percent coarse brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 15 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03816; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490823; continuous - phpvsfiid 490824; continuous - phpvsfiid 490823; continuous - phpvsfiid 490824
    Btx2—74 to 110 centimeters (29.1 to 43.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and ; 35 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03817; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490825; continuous - phpvsfiid 490825
    Btx3—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) gravelly clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very firm; 10 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # 09N03818; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 490826; continuous - phpvsfiid 490826