Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia - Soil Data Mart - US ...

Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia
C2—50 to 65 inches; brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2) channery
loam; massive; friable; many concretions of manganese; 15 percent siltstone and
shale fragments; strongly acid.
Range in Characteristics
Thickness of the solum: 30 to 50 inches
Depth to bedrock: More than 60 inches
Reaction: Extremely acid to neutral throughout
Content of rock fragments: 0 to 30 percent in the solum; 0 to 50 percent in the
substratum
Note: Redox depletions in the lower part of the argillic horizon in most pedons
A horizon:
Hue—10YR
Value—4 to 6
Chroma—3 or 4
Texture—loam, silt loam
BA horizon:
Hue—10YR or 2.5Y
Value—4 to 6
Chroma—3 to 6
Texture—loam, silt loam
Bt horizon:
Hue—5YR to 2.5Y
Value—4 to 6
Chroma—3 to 8
Texture—loam, silt loam, sandy clay loam, clay loam
BC horizon:
Hue—5YR to 2.5Y
Value—4 to 6
Chroma—2 to 8
Texture—loam, silt loam, sandy clay loam, clay loam
C horizon:
Hue—7.5YR to 2.5Y or is neutral
Value—4 to 8
Chroma—0 to 8
Texture—loam, silt loam, sandy clay loam, clay loam
Dormont Series
Depth class: Deep
Drainage class: Moderately well drained
Permeability: Moderately slow or slow
Landscape position: On the upper side slopes of hills and on narrow summits and
shoulders of ridges; in the eastern part of the county
Parent material: Interbedded siltstone and shale residuum
Slope range: 15 to 35 percent
Classification: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
Representative Pedon
Dormont silt loam, in a meadow in Dormont-Latham complex, 15 to 25 percent
slopes, in Wayne County, West Virginia; about 130 yards southeast of the dirt road on
Napier Ridge and about 1.7 miles southwest of East Lynn Dam; USGS Wayne
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