IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wheaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Wheaton S04-VA059-12-2
  • User Pedon ID: S04VA059012-2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0704
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17891
  • 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: 38.4657326
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3174667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA059—Fairfax
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA059—Fairfax County, 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 #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheaton
  • Classificaton Date - 2/26/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheaton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2005
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: phyllite
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2005 (entry creation 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 53 centimeters (0.0 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fine prominent and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 15.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent fine distinct platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N04047; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—53 to 91 centimeters (20.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent fine distinct platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) medium prominent and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 10 percent fine distinct platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket