IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allegheny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994VA105005
  • User Pedon ID: 94VA105005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0077
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67095
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.7119713
  • Std. Longitude: -82.6478882
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA169—Scott
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA169—Scott County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36082-F6—Clinchport, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JRT
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 48 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: slough
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    argillic horizon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

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    0—48

    48—81

    48—

    107—152

    107—

    —48—

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    375

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00499
    AB—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and 10 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P00500
    Bt—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P00501. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 181256; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 181256
    BC—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P00502. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 181257; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 181257
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent coarse irregular light gray (10YR 7/2) iron concretions throughout and 1 percent coarse irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # 95P00503