IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mandy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12WV071001
  • User Pedon ID: S12WV071001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12WV071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72550
  • 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: 38.7073222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.5732694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site is located near the Mandy type location NE of Spruce Knob Lake.
  • Map Unit: MaC—Mandy channery silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV071—Pendleton
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MOR—Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV071—Pendleton County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-F5—Spruce Knob, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Spodic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • PSC - 28 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2014
  • Classifier - J Bell
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent moderate weathered siltstone, unspecified at 85cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Chemung formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACPE

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    PIRU

    PRPE2

    THNO

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Picea rubens

    Prunus pensylvanica

    Thelypteris noveboracensis

    striped maple

    red maple

    sugar maple

    American beech

    red spruce

    pin cherry

    New York fern

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    75 - 85

    85 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fibric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—3

    3—7

    7—58

    75—85

    85—

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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

    12

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    1213.1

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    50

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) rubbed slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03153; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—3 to 7 centimeters (1.2 to 2.8 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) highly organic channery silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03154; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bhs—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) channery silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.4 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.3 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03155; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs1—13 to 34 centimeters (5.1 to 13.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03156; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bs2—34 to 58 centimeters (13.4 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 32 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03157; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC—58 to 75 centimeters (22.8 to 29.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments; 55 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03158; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Cr—75 to 85 centimeters (29.5 to 33.5 inches); bedrock; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry. Highly weathered and fractured siltstone; less than 5 percent fine-earth in the interstices
    R—85 to 110 centimeters (33.5 to 43.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small