IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monongahela
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999WV083001
  • User Pedon ID: S1999WV083001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47618
  • 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: 38.8222222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8591667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Yokum Farm, 580 feet west of farmhouse, 2.7 miles east of Beverly, WV
  • Map Unit: MoB—Monongahela silt loam, moist, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV083—Randolph
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV603—Randolph County Area, Main Part, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-G7—Beverly East, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Bell, J. Teets, R Pyle, A. Topalanchik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monongahela
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/31/2010
  • Classifier - J Bell
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: old fine-loamy alluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: —Error in Exists On—
  • Landform: terrace, stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/24/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    noncoherent

    56 - 109

    - 53 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—28

    28—109

    56—109

    —28—

    —81—

    —53—
    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
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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WVU00236
    Bt1—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00237. common very coarse (10YR 4/3) tubular krotovinas; patchy - phpvsfiid 722281; patchy - phpvsfiid 722281
    Bt2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00238. common very coarse (10YR 4/3) tubular krotovinas; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722282; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722282
    Btx1—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 40 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine and fine roots; faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00239. few fine (7.5YR 5/6) iron concentrations; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722283; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722283
    Btx2—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine platy structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WVU00240. few medium (10YR 6/3) and few fine (7.5YR 5/6) iron concentrations; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722284; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722284
    2C—109 to 165 centimeters (42.9 to 65.0 inches); 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very cobbly clay loam; massive; firm; 30 percent clay films on rock fragments; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # WVU00241. few fine (10YR 4/6) iron concentrations; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722285; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 722285