IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-HI-46
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-WV075-185
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0185
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51128
  • 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: 38.5641111
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6601111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Thornwood VA- WV quadrangle; (Highland County, VA); 9100 feet 213 degrees south-southwest of the intersection of Forest Service Roads 598 and 142; 9550 feet 175 degrees south-southeast of the intersection of Forest Service Roads 271, 271A, and 806
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV075—Pocahontas
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA091—Highland County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-E6—Thornwood, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 61cm
  • 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

    5—61

    61—

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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

    26

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    1131

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    140

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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); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    BE—6 to 8 centimeters (2.4 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; 7 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01851, VPI01852
    Bt2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01853, VPI01851
    R—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); fragments.