IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-BA-15
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-WV075-154
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0154
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51097
  • 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: 38.0795278
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9553778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mountain Grove VA- WV quadrangle; (Pocahontas, VA); 19050 feet 218 degrees southwest of the intersection of Highways WV-39 and WV-601; 16800 feet 270 degrees west of the southern intersection of Highways VA-39 and VA-600
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV075—Pocahontas
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV075—Pocahontas County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-A8—Mountain Grove, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 28 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone and shale at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    25—51

    64—

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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

    12

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    988

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    270

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01541
    BA—6 to 28 centimeters (2.4 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery loam; 49 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01541, VPI01542
    Bt—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery loam; 45 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01543, VPI01541
    C—54 to 67 centimeters (21.3 to 26.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) channery loam; 42 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 21 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01541, VPI01544
    R—67 to 77 centimeters (26.4 to 30.3 inches); fragments.