IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wheaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Wheaton S03-VA059-1-3
  • User Pedon ID: 03VA059001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0256
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15789
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.8547554
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3649673
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 905—Wheaton loam, 2 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA059—Fairfax
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA059—Fairfax County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38077-G3—Fairfax, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JDH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheaton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2008
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheaton
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from phyllite
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent phyllite
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - artificial cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse prominent mottles; moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 15.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter phyllite fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01146; moist when described;
    C1—5 to 91 centimeters (2.0 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 2 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots; 0.7 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine distinct platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter phyllite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01147; moist when described;
    C2—91 to 137 centimeters (35.8 to 53.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 2 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; moderate permeability; 10 percent fine distinct platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter phyllite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01148; moist when described;
    C3—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 2 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; moderate permeability; 10 percent fine distinct platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter phyllite fragments.; moist when described;