IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Poynor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994VA105007
  • User Pedon ID: 94VA105007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994VA105007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0079
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67097
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 36.7469444
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0019455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1050 feet south of County Route 630 at a point 0.6 miles east of US Route 421.
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA105—Lee
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA105—Lee County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36083-F1—Ben Hur, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shawn M. Finn
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Poynor
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over clayey, siliceous Typic Paleudults
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 165.1 cm of Depth to bedroc and 50.8 cm of Depth to mottle


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/14/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACER

    CASTA

    Acer

    Castanea

    maple

    chestnut

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    0—

    13—155

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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

    45

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    518

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    220

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) very gravelly loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00511; moist when described;
    BE—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 50 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00512; moist when described;
    Bt1—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 50 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 40 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00513; moist when described;. Wet sieving for %RF = in Bt1 = 37%.
    2Bt2—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 3 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on faces of peds; 13 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00514; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 181261; continuous - phpvsfiid 181261
    2Bt3—81 to 155 centimeters (31.9 to 61.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 95P00515; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 181262; continuous - phpvsfiid 181262