IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Groseclose
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-SY-4E
  • User Pedon ID: V1985-VA173-347
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0347
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51899
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.8968278
  • Std. Longitude: -81.7368750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: (Broadford topographic quadrangle); about 0.5 miles south of the junction of Highways VA-631 and US-91 and 0.75 miles north of Buckeye Spring near Sanders Hill in Smyth County
  • 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 Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Groseclose
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—25 to 76 centimeters (9.8 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03471, VPI03472
    Bt2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03473, VPI03471
    Bt3—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct black (N 2/) manganese masses and 20 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/8) masses of reduced iron; fragments. Lab sample # VPI03473