IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frederick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-SY-4B
  • User Pedon ID: V1985-VA173-345
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0345
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51897
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.8784722
  • Std. Longitude: -81.6906222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: (Broadfored topographic quadrangle); about 0.75 miles west of Worthy Mine and 0.75 miles southwest of Page Hollow in Smyth County
  • Map Unit: 16D—Frederick gravelly silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA173—Smyth
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA173—Smyth County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36081-H6—Broadford, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/2009 (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
    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

    17

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—25 to 76 centimeters (9.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay; 11 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 49 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct yellow (10YR 8/8) masses of reduced iron and 20 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4) masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03452, VPI03451
    Bt2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct white (5YR 8/1) masses of reduced iron and 20 percent medium distinct yellow (10YR 8/8) masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03453, VPI03451
    Bt3—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct white (5YR 8/1) masses of reduced iron and 20 percent medium distinct yellow (10YR 8/8) masses of reduced iron and 25 percent medium distinct masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # VPI03453