IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grist Mill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004-VA059-5-2
  • User Pedon ID: S04VA059005-2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0699
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17886
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.6756477
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2265701
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mason Neck Park, along the southeast edge of the tennis courts, 410 feet northwest of the park entrance on Old Colchester Road and 530 feet north northeast of the intersection of Old Colchester Road and Greene Drive
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA059—Fairfax
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA059—Fairfax County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38077-F2—Fort Belvoir, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JDH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grist Mill
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grist Mill
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Earthy fill of fluviomarine deposits
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/28/2005 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04037; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—43 to 102 centimeters (16.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; massive; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    C3—102 to 114 centimeters (40.2 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    2C4—114 to 132 centimeters (44.9 to 52.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) clay; 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    3C5—132 to 147 centimeters (52.0 to 57.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter quartz fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    4C6—147 to 152 centimeters (57.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter quartz fragments.; observed in auger, bucket