IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Helena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Helen-2
  • User Pedon ID: V1984-VA081-252
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0252
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51202
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 36.5819321
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6664429
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 565 yards west southwest of the junction of Highways VA-659 and VA-603 and 1.4 miles south southwest of the junction of Highways VA-627 and VA-603, about 3 miles east of Barley
  • Map Unit: 40A—Woodington fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA081—Greensville
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 14-7—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA081—Greensville County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36077-E6—Barley, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Helena
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly coarse sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02521
    Bt1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 34 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 75 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02522
    Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light gray (10YR 7/1) and red (10R 4/6) clay; 30 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 75 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02523
    C—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); variegated light gray (10YR 7/1) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and red (10R 5/8) clay loam; 37 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 33 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02524
    Cg—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); white (N 8/), and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay loam; 36 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 28 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # VPI02525