IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gullion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994VA167006
  • User Pedon ID: 94VA167006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0085
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67103
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 36.7689171
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2482758
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 6000 feet southwest of intersection of VA 613 and VA 697, Moccasin Creek.
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA167—Russell
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA167—Russell County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36082-G2—Hansonville, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RRD
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gullion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, siliceous Fluventic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very brief periods begining in mar
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • Microrelief Elevation: 0
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—46

    46—107

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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

    1219

    1219.2

    582

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    200

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; semideformable; 21.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00540
    A—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; semideformable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00541
    Bw1—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; semideformable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00542
    Bw2—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent medium and coarse spherical strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P00543
    C—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; massive; firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent medium and coarse spherical strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium and coarse spherical light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ironstone nodules; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter limestone-shale fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P00544
    R—135 centimeters (53.1 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.