IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buckton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VA163 TP Buckton sil
  • User Pedon ID: S2002VA163050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0507
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14108
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 37.9356918
  • Std. Longitude: -79.3236389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 875 feet north of VA-724, 0.6 miles northwest of the intersection of VA-252 and VA-724, on a flood plain of Hays Creek; in pasture
  • Map Unit: 9A—Buckton-Weaver complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA163—Rockbridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA163—Rockbridge County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37079-H3—Brownsburg, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: mec
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 50
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Buckton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buckton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from limestone, sandstone, and shale
  • Landscape: shale, limestone, and sandstone river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/2006 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—66

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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

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02576; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02577; observed in auger, bucket
    Ab—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02578; observed in auger, bucket
    2Cb1—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02579; observed in auger, bucket
    2Cb2—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; massive; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0.; observed in auger, bucket