IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monongahela
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S99-WV031-004
  • User Pedon ID: S99WV031004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S99-WV031-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - WVU
  • Lab Pedon # - WVU0050
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47606
  • 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: 39.1450000
  • Std. Longitude: -78.9183333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: DNR Farm near the Trough about 165 yards East of where farm lane crosses railroad tracks, about 140 yards upslope of track and about 60 yards downslope of edge of woods. Hardy County
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV031—Hardy
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV628—Grant and Hardy Counties, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39078-B8—Old Fields, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ron Estepp
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monongahela
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: old alluvium
  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    DAGL

    ROMU

    Dactylis glomerata

    Rosa multiflora

    orchardgrass

    multiflora rose

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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

    6

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    243

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    320

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 7.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # WVU00219
    BA—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # WVU00220
    Bw—26 to 43 centimeters (10.2 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # WVU00221
    Bt1—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # WVU00222. patchy - phpvsfiid 663271; patchy - phpvsfiid 663271
    Bt2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate thick platy structure; 0.5 very fine roots; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; and 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 11 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # WVU00223. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 663272; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 663272
    Btx1—79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # WVU00224. continuous - phpvsfiid 722273; continuous - phpvsfiid 722273
    Btx2—109 to 117 centimeters (42.9 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions and 11 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) manganese masses; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # WVU00225. continuous - phpvsfiid 722274; continuous - phpvsfiid 722274
    Btx3—117 to 139 centimeters (46.1 to 54.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak thick platy structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 21 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # WVU00226. continuous - phpvsfiid 722275; continuous - phpvsfiid 722275
    Btx4—139 to 166 centimeters (54.7 to 65.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2); weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak thick platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # WVU00227. continuous - phpvsfiid 722276; continuous - phpvsfiid 722276