IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mandy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-HI-34
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-WV075-176
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0176
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51119
  • 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: 38.4152222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7072778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hightown VA-WV quadrangle; (Pocahontas County, VA); 18750 feet 322 degrees northwest of the intersection of Highways VA-84 an VA-640 at Meadowdale; 22400 feet 220 degrees south-southwest of the intersection of Highways US-250 and VA-640 at Hightown
  • 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-D6—Hightown, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 61 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 sandstone and shale at 58cm with 10 to <45
  • 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

    10—58

    58—

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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

    20

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    1253

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    235

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; channery loam; 43 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01761, VPI01762
    Bw—13 to 61 centimeters (5.1 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very channery loam; 46 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01763, VPI01761
    R—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); fragments.