LOCATION LINDSIDE           WV+IN KY MD MO OH PA TN VA

LINDSIDE 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. Permeability is moderate. Slopes range 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 iron accumulation and few fine and medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions;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 iron accumulation and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions; 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 iron accumulation; 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 through 3. The A horizon is silt loam, silty clay loam, or loam.

The BA, Bw, and BC horizons have hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 through 6, above a depth of
20 inches and 1 through 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 through 2.5Y, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 1 through 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: There are no other series in this family at this time. The Hontas and Senecaville series, whose
classification has not yet been updated to the eighth edition of soil taxonomy may become competitors. The Hontas soils have a subhorizon between depths of 20 and 40 inches with chroma of 2 or less which overlaps with those polypedons of Lindside soils which are allowed to have this same property. Senecaville soils have hue of 5YR or redder throughout the B horizon.

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, 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. Newark soils are somewhat poorly
drained. Clarksburg soils have a fragipan.

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Moderately well drained. Runoff is medium and permeability is moderate.

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).