IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Montalto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015VA187004
  • User Pedon ID: S2015VA187004
  • User Site Association ID: NEON_RO6_SCBI
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • User Project ID: SCBI_002_NEON
  • Project Name: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 38.8968333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.1463611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Location Description: 6.1;305;40x40 SE marker
  • Map Unit: 32E—Myersville and Montalto soils, 25 to 65 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA187—Warren
  • MLRA: 130A—Northern Blue Ridge
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA187—Warren County, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeff Thomas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montalto
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2015
  • Classifier - Jeff Thomas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from gabbro
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 4
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - SCBI_004
  • DSP Plot ID - SE
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 305
  • Plot Baseline Length - 6
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Mike Jones

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: James Bell
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    agric horizon

    0—25

    25—100

    —25—

    —75—
    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

    22

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    318

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    278

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) channery silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 32 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter greenstone fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N02442; observed in pit, small
    AB—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter greenstone fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02443; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter greenstone fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N02444; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—48 to 100 centimeters (18.9 to 39.4 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 42 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter greenstone fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 16N02445; observed in pit, small