IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mandy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-HI-36
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-WV075-178
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0178
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51121
  • 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: 38.4039444
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7167222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hightown VA-WV quadrangle; (Pocahontas County, VA); 16800 feet 107 degrees northwest of the intersection of Highways VA-640 and VA-638; 24350 feet 228 degrees southwest of the intersection of Highways US-250 and VA-600
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV075—Pocahontas
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-D6—Hightown, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mandy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 82 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 79cm
  • 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

    3—79

    79—

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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

    27

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    1237

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    300

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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 brown (7.5YR 3/4) channery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw1—6 to 41 centimeters (2.4 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) channery loam; 42 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01781, VPI01782
    Bw2—41 to 82 centimeters (16.1 to 32.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very channery loam; 43 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 45 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01783, VPI01781
    R—82 to 92 centimeters (32.3 to 36.2 inches); fragments.