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Cloverlick Series
Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia
Depth class: Very deep
Drainage class: Well drained
Permeability: Moderate or moderately rapid
Landscape position: On the middle and lower side slopes of hills, on footslopes, and
in north-facing coves
Parent material: Colluvium derived from sandstone, siltstone, and shale
Slope range: 35 to 65 percent
Classification: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
Representative Pedon
Cloverlick loam, in a wooded area of Highsplint-Matewan-Cloverlick association, very
steep, extremely stony, on a north-facing lower backslope; 1.25 miles west-southwest
of Woodville, 0.75 mile south-southeast of Alkol, and 250 feet south of Bear Branch of
Horse Creek; USGS Griffithsville topographic quadrangle; lat. 38 degrees 09 minutes
18 seconds N. and long. 81 degrees 54 minutes 24 seconds W.
Oi—0 to 2 inches; slightly decomposed leaf litter.
A—2 to 9 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam, brown (10YR 5/3) dry;
weak fine granular structure; very friable; many fine and medium roots;
10 percent sandstone and siltstone channers; slightly acid; clear smooth
boundary.
BA—9 to 13 inches; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and dark brown (10YR 3/3)
channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable;
many fine and medium roots; 20 percent sandstone and siltstone channers;
moderately acid; gradual smooth boundary.
Bw1—13 to 29 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery loam; weak
medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine and medium roots;
35 percent sandstone and siltstone channers; moderately acid; gradual smooth
boundary.
Bw2—29 to 45 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) very channery loam; weak medium
subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine and medium roots; 50 percent
sandstone and siltstone channers; very strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary.
Bw3—45 to 50 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) extremely channery silt loam; weak medium
subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; 60 percent sandstone and
siltstone channers; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.
C—50 to 65 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery loam; massive;
very friable; 70 percent sandstone and siltstone channers; very strongly acid.
Range in Characteristics
Thickness of the solum: 40 to 60 inches
Depth to bedrock: More than 60 inches
Reaction: Strongly acid to slightly acid in the A horizon; very strongly acid to
moderately acid in the BA and Bw horizons; very strongly acid or strongly acid in
the C horizon
Content of rock fragments: 10 to 40 percent in the A and BA horizons; 35 to
60 percent in the Bw horizon; 40 to 75 percent in the C horizon
A horizon:
Hue—10YR
Value—3; 4 or 5 dry
Chroma—2 or 3
Texture—loam, silt loam
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