IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Myersville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015VA187013
  • User Pedon ID: S2015VA187013
  • User Site Association ID: NEON_RO6_SCBI
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0569
  • User Project ID: SCBI_002_NEON
  • Project Name: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 38.8745000
  • Std. Longitude: -78.1646111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Location Description: 11.8;290;20x20 NE 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-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Myersville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2015
  • Classifier - Rob Pate
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from greenstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 13
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - SCBI_013
  • DSP Plot ID - NE
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 290
  • Plot Baseline Length - 12
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - James Bell

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Mike Jones
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—4

    20—100

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    —80—
    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

    38

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    336

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    274

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) channery silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-37-75 millimeter greenstone fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter greenstone fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02477; observed in pit, small
    BA—4 to 20 centimeters (1.6 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-88-250 millimeter greenstone fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-37-75 millimeter greenstone fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter greenstone fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N02478; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter greenstone fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-37-75 millimeter greenstone fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N02479; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—45 to 100 centimeters (17.7 to 39.4 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) channery silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter greenstone fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-88-250 millimeter greenstone fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-37-75 millimeter greenstone fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 16N02480; observed in pit, small