IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cookport
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WV081001 Cookport
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WV081001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WV081001 Cookport
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0910
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18994
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 37.6958351
  • Std. Longitude: -81.0629196
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: approximately 80ft. from Fire Trail Road in Shady Spring
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV081—Raleigh
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV605—Fayette and Raleigh Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37081-F1—Shady Spring, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.O'Neill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cookport
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cookport
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 148cm
  • Geology: Pottsville group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/30/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIST

    QUAL

    OXAR

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus alba

    Oxydendrum arboreum

    eastern white pine

    white oak

    sourwood

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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

    4

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    883.7

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    80

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03950; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—2 to 3 centimeters (0.8 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03951; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa/A—3 to 7 centimeters (1.2 to 2.8 inches); highly decomposed plant material, silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03952; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AE—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03953; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03954; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03955; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—54 to 78 centimeters (21.3 to 30.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03956; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx1—78 to 94 centimeters (30.7 to 37.0 inches); 90 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03957; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx2—94 to 125 centimeters (37.0 to 49.2 inches); 90 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face silt loam; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 06N03958; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R/C—125 to 148 centimeters (49.2 to 58.3 inches); 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed and 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed and 25 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) crushed and 25 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed bedrock, silt loam; structureless massive; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03959; moist when described; observed in pit, small. pedon horizon colors for this R/C were variegated, and are for the 20% of the horizon that is C material. color for the R material was not noted. horizon structure and texture also represent the C portion of the horizon.
    R—148 centimeters (58.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small