IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frederick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004VA163001
  • User Pedon ID: S2004VA163001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004VA163001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1176
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17318
  • 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: 37.9324150
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2169418
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA163—Rockbridge
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA163—Rockbridge County, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sarah Murray, Mary Ellen Cook, and Barrie Wolf
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • PSC - 22 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    DAGL

    FESTU

    HECO7

    Dactylis glomerata

    Festuca

    Hemizonia congesta

    orchardgrass

    fescue

    hayfield tarweed

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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

    10

    15

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 04N06860
    Ap2—10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 04N06861
    Bt1—22 to 48 centimeters (8.7 to 18.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 04N06862
    Bt2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 04N06863
    Bt3—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 04N06864
    Bt4—104 to 125 centimeters (40.9 to 49.2 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films; 1 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 04N06865
    Bt51—125 to 152 centimeters (49.2 to 59.8 inches); 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 40 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) silty clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium tubular and 0.5 fine and medium vesicular pores; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 04N06866
    Bt52—152 to 189 centimeters (59.8 to 74.4 inches); 40 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium vesicular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 04N06867
    Bt53—189 to 237 centimeters (74.4 to 93.3 inches); 40 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; 0.5 fine and medium vesicular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 04N06868