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Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia
accumulations; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; common
fine roots; slightly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Cg1—30 to 48 inches; dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) silt loam; common coarse
yellowish red (5YR 5/8) redox accumulations; massive; friable; few fine roots;
common concretions of manganese; slightly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Cg2—48 to 65 inches; gray (N 6/) fine sandy loam; massive; friable; common
concretions of manganese; slightly acid.
Range in Characteristics
Thickness of the solum: 30 to 42 inches
Depth to bedrock: More than 60 inches
Reaction: Strongly acid to slightly acid throughout
Content of rock fragments: 0 to 5 percent throughout
A horizon:
Hue—5YR or 7.5YR
Value—4 or 5
Chroma—3 or 4
Texture—loam, silt loam
BA horizon (if it occurs):
Hue—5YR or 7.5YR
Value—4 or 5
Chroma—3 or 4
Texture—loam, silt loam
Bw horizon:
Hue—2.5YR or 5YR
Value—4 or 5
Chroma—3 to 6
Texture—silt loam, silty clay loam
Cg horizon:
Hue—2.5YR to 7.5YR or is neutral
Value—2 to 5
Chroma—0 to 2
Texture—fine sandy loam, loam, silt loam
Sensabaugh Series
Depth class: Very deep
Drainage class: Well drained
Permeability: Moderate or moderately rapid
Landscape position: On alluvial fans at the mouth of hollows and on narrow flood
plains along small streams and intermittent drainageways
Parent material: Local alluvium or colluvium derived from soils underlain by shale,
sandstone, and siltstone
Slope range: 0 to 8 percent
Classification: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
Representative Pedon
Sensabaugh loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded; in a pastured area
along Turkey Creek of Trace Fork of Mud River; USGS Garretts Bend topographic
quadrangle; lat. 38 degrees 17 minutes 12 seconds N. and long. 81 degrees
58 minutes 01 second W.
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