IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975WV061001
  • User Pedon ID: S1975WV061001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975WV061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0338
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49182
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 39.6583633
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8164291
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cooper's Rock State Forest, Monongalia County, West Virginia; in a wooded area about 200 feet south of Goodspeed Trail; about .8 miles east of junction of the trail with Johnson Hollow Trail near Quarry Run Road
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV061—Monongalia
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV611—Marion and Monongalia Counties, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dale Childs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    KALA

    QUAL

    Kalmia latifolia

    Quercus alba

    mountain laurel

    white 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

    44

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    180

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    O2—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 81P01742
    A1—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01743
    A2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01744
    O2A1A2B1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 81P01748
    B1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01745
    B2—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 roots; 35 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01746
    B3—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 roots; 60 percent by volume unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01747
    C—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 roots; 70 percent by volume unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary.
    R—69 to 100 centimeters (27.2 to 39.4 inches); fragments.