LOCATION LINDSIDE WV+IN KY MD MO OH PA TN VAEstablished Series
The Lindside series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils formed in alluvium washed mainly from lime influenced soils on uplands. They occur on nearly level flood plains. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high to high. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Eutrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Lindside silt loam - cultivated. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 8 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; few roots; strongly acid;clear wavy boundary. (6 to 12 inches thick)
BA--8 to 17 inches;brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; few roots; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (0 to 10 inches thick)
Bw--17 to 30 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure parting to moderate medium subangular blocky; firm; few roots; many fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and few fine and medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions on faces peds; moderately acid; gradual wavy boundary. (10 to 30 inches thick)
BC--30 to 44 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure parting to moderate medium subangular blocky; firm; few roots; common medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions on faces peds; moderately acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 20 inches thick)
C--44 to 65 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) weakly stratified silt loam and light silty clay loam; massive; firm; few black concretions; common medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions and distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; moderately acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Wood County, West Virginia; Boaz, about 150 yards east of Ohio River, 1 1/2 miles north of Keller Lane.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness ranges from 25 to 60 inches. The soil ranges from strongly acid to mildly alkaline in the upper part, unless limed, and from moderately acid to mildly alkaline in the lower part of the profile. Rock fragments range from 0 to 5 percent within a depth of 40 inches and from 0 to 30 percent below. Depth to redoximorphic depletions ranges from 14 to 24 inches.
The Ap horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 or 3. Dry value is 6 or more. Undisturbed areas have a thin A horizon with hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 2 or 3, and chroma of 1 to 3. The A horizon is silt loam, silty clay loam, or loam.
The BA, Bw, and BC horizons have hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 to 6, above a depth of 20 inches and 1 to 4 below. Some pedons have moist value of 3 and chroma of 2 where dry value is 6 or more. They are silt loam or silty clay loam, and in some pedons there are thin strata of very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, or clay loam.
The C horizon has hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 1 to 4, except chroma of 6 and 8 are allowed if colors are mixed. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is silty clay loam, silt loam, loam, clay loam, very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam, and sandy loam and may be stratified.
COMPETING SERIES: The Boonewood, Hontas and Senecaville series are in the same family. Boonewood soils are moderately deep with depth to the bedrock range from 20 to 40 inches. They formed in alluvium derived from limestone, siltstones, shales, and other silty material. The Hontas soils have subhorizons less than 40 inches with chroma of 2 or less. They formed in silty alluvium. Senecaville soils have hue of 5YR or redder throughout the B horizon, they formed in alluvium from dominantly interbedded shale and siltstone, and some interbedding of sandstone.
The Dockery, Hamblen, Hamlin, Huntington, Lobdell, Nolin, Rahm, Ray, Steff, Teel, Wakeland, and Weaver series are similar soils in related families. Dockery, Rahm, and Wakeland soils do not have a cambic horizon. Hamblen, Lobdell, and Weaver soils have more than 15 percent coarser particles than very fine sand in the particle-size control section. Hamlin and Teel soils have less than 18 percent clay in the particle-size control section. Huntington soils have a mollic epipedon. Nolin and Ray soils do not have low chroma mottles within a depth of 24 inches of the surface. Steff soils have less than 60 percent base saturation in all subhorizons between a depth of 10 and 30 inches below the soil surface.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Lindside soils are nearly level soils on flood plains and in upland drainageways. Slopes are mostly 0 to 3 percent. The soils formed in recent alluvium washed mainly from limestone influenced uplands. Average annual precipitation ranges from 35 to 55 inches, and temperature ranges from 45 to 57 degrees F.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Ashton, Chagrin, Clarksburg, Dunning, Huntington, Linden, Melvin, Newark, Nolin, Sciotoville, and Wheeling soils. Ashton, Sciotoville, and Wheeling soils are on terraces and have argillic horizons. Chagrin soils are well drained. Dunning and Melvin soils are poorly drained. Huntington soils formed in alluvium on flood plains. Linden are very deep, well drained soils formed in alluvial sediments washed from nearby uplands that are underlain by red and brown shales, sandstones, and in some areas, conglomerate. Newark soils are somewhat poorly drained. Clarksburg soils have a fragipan. Nolin formed in alluvium derived from limestones, sandstones, siltstones, shales, and loess
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Moderately well drained. Runoff is low to medium and saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high to high.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are cleared and cultivated or pastured. Original vegetation was mixed hardwoods.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri. Extent is large. MLRA's 116A, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 147, and 148.
MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Monroe County, West Virginia, 1925.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
1. Ochric epipedon - the zone from 0 to 17 inches (Ap and BA horizons).
2. Cambic horizon - the zone from 17 to 30 inches (Bw horizon).
2008 Pedon description and competing series updated