IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-BA-16
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-WV075-155
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0155
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51098
  • 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: 38.0786944
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9557222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mountain Grove VA- WV quadrangle; (Pocahontas County, VA); 19450 feet 220 degrees southwest of the intersection of Highway WV-39 and WV-601; 22750 feet 325 degrees northwest of McClintoc Bridge along VA-603 over northern end of Lake Moomaw
  • 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 Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • 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 69cm
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    5—69

    69—

    —-

    —-

    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

    17

    1000

    348

    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) channery loam; 41 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01551, VPI01552
    BA—8 to 44 centimeters (3.1 to 17.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) channery loam; 44 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 30 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01553, VPI01551
    Bw—44 to 72 centimeters (17.3 to 28.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) channery loam; 45 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent distinct clay films between sand grains; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01551, VPI01554
    R—72 to 82 centimeters (28.3 to 32.3 inches); fragments.