IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Poplimento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017VA043032
  • User Pedon ID: S2017VA043032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0794
  • User Project ID: BLAN_002_NEON
  • Project Name: Blandy Experimental Farm
  • 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: 39.0594722
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0724722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Blandy Farm near Winchester, VA. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Tower site. 255 cm @ 51 degrees from NE20m corner of plot.
  • Map Unit: 35B—Poplimento silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA043—Clarke
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA043—Clarke County, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, subactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Poplimento
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, subactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2017
  • Classifier - Mike McDevitt
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - shrub
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - BLAN_032
  • DSP Plot ID - NE
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 51
  • Plot Baseline Length - 3
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of Pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Mike McDevitt

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Seitz, McDevitt, Jones, Marshall
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other shrub cover
  • 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—26

    58—100

    —26—

    —42—
    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

    1

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    165.8

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    125

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    A—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; 15 percent clay; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N03958; dry when described; observed in auger, dutch
    AB—26 to 58 centimeters (10.2 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; 15 percent clay; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N03959; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, dutch
    Bt1—58 to 82 centimeters (22.8 to 32.3 inches); 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 27 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face and 3 percent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) broken face silt loam; 56 percent clay; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N03960; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, dutch
    Bt2—82 to 100 centimeters (32.3 to 39.4 inches); 80 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face and 16 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face and 4 percent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) broken face silty clay; 56 percent clay; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N03961; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, dutch