IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laidig
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WV019004 Laidig
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WV019004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WV019004 Laidig
  • User Site Association ID: New River and Associated Rec Areas
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0901
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18985
  • 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: 38.0005569
  • Std. Longitude: -81.0327759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located in an old road cut on the south side of the miners trail at the top of the NPS road at Cunard, Fayette County.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV019—Fayette
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV605—Fayette and Raleigh Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38081-A1—Fayetteville, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Laidig
  • PSC - 19 to 39 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Laidig
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: New River formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/23/2006 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    FRAM2

    LITU

    MAAC

    OXAR

    QUAL

    QURU

    QUVE

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Fraxinus americana

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Magnolia acuminata

    Oxydendrum arboreum

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    Quercus velutina

    red maple

    sugar maple

    white ash

    tuliptree

    cucumber tree

    sourwood

    white oak

    northern red oak

    black oak

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

    fragipan

    122—

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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

    18

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    486.4

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    25

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03879; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 9 centimeters (0.8 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed highly organic silt loam; weak 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; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03880; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A/B—9 to 19 centimeters (3.5 to 7.5 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03881; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—19 to 35 centimeters (7.5 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03882; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 527781; patchy - phpvsfiid 527781
    Bt2—35 to 80 centimeters (13.8 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03883; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527782; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527782
    Bt3—80 to 112 centimeters (31.5 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03884; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527783; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 527783
    Bt4—112 to 122 centimeters (44.1 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent fine and medium light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds and 15 percent fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix surrounding redox depletions; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03885; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 527784; patchy - phpvsfiid 527784
    Btx—122 to 180 centimeters (48.0 to 70.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very gravelly loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; few (0.1) fine roots between peds; 1 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions on vertical faces of peds and 1 percent fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 06N03886; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 527785; patchy - phpvsfiid 527785